Humanism and the Sixteenth Century Cambridge Arts Course

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• I am extremely grateful to the late Dr A. N. L. Munby, King's College, Cambridge, for first drawing my attention to these lists
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• As will be evident from these two lists, there are severe limitations on the amount of material to be gleaned from the lists. Usually only an author's name is given, unless the work is an unexpected one. However using H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books printed on the Continent of Europe 1501‐1600 in Cambridge libraries (Cambridge 1967), and the Short Title Catalogue it is often possible to determine the probable work and edition
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• I refer to the English system. In Germany, for instance, the changeover from grammar to other studies came in the last years at school, since university training began later
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• Valla . 1540 . Opera Vol. I , 732 Basel This definition preserves the medieval view that ‘predication occurs only in a proposition and the only constituents of propositions are utterances; thus only utterances may be predicated’
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• 1540 . Dialecticae disputationes, Opera Vol. I , 651 Basel At philosophia ac dialectica non solent, ac ne debent quidem recedere ab usitatissima loquendi consuetudine, et quasi a via vulgo trita et silicibus strata
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• 1540 . Opera Vol. I , 717 Nam quid causae est, cur his paucis dictionibus retentis, reijciamus caeteras, quas in omni sermone occupamus atque usurpare oportet, siue utilitatem spectes, siue dignitatem, qualia sunt, facile, difficile, certum, incertum, consuetum, insuetum, utile, inutile, iucundum, iniucundum, decorum, indecorum, et alia huiusmodi? An non iniurium atque crudele tot et tarn nobilia vocabula quasi capitis damnare, aut certe in exilium mittere, as totam pene defonnare ciuitatem? Quid enim si dicam honestum est ciuem pugnare pro patria, nunquid sub aliquo illorum modorum haec erit enunciatio? minime. Vnum pro multis in re apertissima suffecerit exemplum
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• Opera Vol. I , 717 Quapropter ita sentio, nihil esse enundationem modalem, tantundemque momenti, quantum ilia sex habent, babere caetera, quae dixi nomina seu verba: sed necessitatem ac possibilita‐tem in conclusionem esse, sicut veritatem in omnibus partibus argumentationis. Omnia enim sint vcra oportet, siue dicat necesse est, siue possibile siue facile, siue honestum, siue caetera omnia. Idem autem est hoc loco uerum quod certum, quia nulla attinet esse quid uerum nisi fuerit certum atque confessum. Sed ueritas duarum priorum syllogismi argu‐mentationisque partium pro certa atque confessa ponitur, in ultima autem, id est, in conclusione extorquetur, ideoque necessitas inest, siue tanquam necessitas, ut ne ab eodem recedam exemplo. Honestum est quencunque ciuem pugnare pro patria, hoc verum certumque est, quod omnes confitentur. Item minor confessa, Cato est ciuis Romanus, turn conclusio, ergo debet pugnare pro Roma, quae est ipsius patria
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• Opera Vol. I , 717 At quoties ratio non plane uera planeque certa sed semiuera et semicerta est, turn condusio non est necessaria, sed seminecessaria quae cum multis habuerit uirium uocabitur uerisimilis, siue credibilis, hoc est ualde possibilis: cum paulum uocabitur possibilis, id est, aliquantulum verisimilis atque credibilis
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• Camporeale . 122 – 3 .
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• Moore Smith , G. C. , ed. 1913 . Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia 110 Stratford Ante, et post Vallae dialecticarum disputationum libro tres: eodem fere acri, criticoque spiritu tam diserte concinnatos; quam liberrime effusos. Nec vel huius, vel illius piget, tanto cum fructu, ac iucunditate toties perlecti. Talia vero, dedes repetita placebunt: ut sdte ille
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• Howell , W. S. 1961 . Logic and Rhetoric in England 1500‐1700 247 – 55 . New York On the specifically Ramist flavour, of Harvey's outlook on dialectic see
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• Nullus scriptor, ne Valla quidem, Quinctiliano affinior vel matcria, vel forma, vel fine, quam meus Rodolphus de inventione dialectica. Ergo ad Rodolphum cum Quinctiliano. Ibid., 123
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• Interest doctiorum, esse exemplaria indoctorum. Turpe eruditis ab indoctis superari. Vel solus Quinctilianus praeclare docebit eruditos egregie vincere ineruditos. Ut quidem eximie docuit Vallam, Decembrium, Rodolphum, nonnullos alios, suis maioribus conspicue praecellentes. Ibid., 113
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• Harvey notes in his marginalia to Quintilian: ‘Wilson's Rhetorique and Logique, the dailie bread of our common pleaders, and discoursers’, 122
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• (Piscator also published ‘logical analyses’ of Genesis, St. Paul's Epistles, and various gospels.) Decimus tertius nunc annus agitur, nobilissimi adolescentes: quum in illustri schola Moersensi … disdpulis meis inter alios utriusque linguae bonos authores, epistolas quoque Horatii & selectas aliquot odas proposui: ut ita ipsos & linguae Latinae copia atque elegantia augerem, & usum praeceptorum logicorum in illustribus hisce acutissimi & nervosissimi scriptoris exemplis ostenderem
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• Quaestio de summo voto Horatii: quodnam illud sit? Respondet, hoc esse summum suum votum ac desiderium, ut consequatur nomen Poetae lyrici. Hoc suum desiderium illustrat oppositione disparatorum: opponit enim sibi alios quorum summa vota alia sint: quae oppositio ex octo partibus constat: enumerat enim octo genera hominum, qui summis votis, ac proinde etiam studiis, inter se differunt. 1. ibi, Sunt quos. 2. ibi, Hunc si. 3. ibi, Ilium si. 4. ibi, Gaudentem. 5. ibi, Lactantem. 6. ibi, Est qui. 7. ibi, Multos. 8. ibi, Manet. Apodosis oppositions ibi, Me doctarum. (pp. 570‐1)
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