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- Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
- Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Two Youths
- Chapter Three Mental Images
- Chapter Four Virtues, Sins, and the Senses in the Fior di Virtù
- Chapter Five Serving the State in the Fior di Virtù
- Chapter Six Dealing with Others in the Esopo Volgarizzato
- Chapter Seven The Flesh in the Fior di Virtù and the Esopo Volgarizzato
- Chapter Eight Mathematics, Body, Form, and Metaphor in Libri d’Abbaco
- Chapter Nine The Cosmos in Goro Dati’s Sfera
- Chapter Ten Navigation and Geography in the Sfera
- Chapter Eleven Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Chapter Five - Serving the State in the Fior di Virtù
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2020
- Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
- Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Two Youths
- Chapter Three Mental Images
- Chapter Four Virtues, Sins, and the Senses in the Fior di Virtù
- Chapter Five Serving the State in the Fior di Virtù
- Chapter Six Dealing with Others in the Esopo Volgarizzato
- Chapter Seven The Flesh in the Fior di Virtù and the Esopo Volgarizzato
- Chapter Eight Mathematics, Body, Form, and Metaphor in Libri d’Abbaco
- Chapter Nine The Cosmos in Goro Dati’s Sfera
- Chapter Ten Navigation and Geography in the Sfera
- Chapter Eleven Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
In chapter 4, we have seen how the bestiary in the fior di virtù could introduce children to virtues considered essential for relating to others – love, joy, and humility – as well as vices which are detrimental to good relationships – folly, anger, envy, cruelty, and vainglory. This chapter focuses on some of the virtues that in the fifteenth century were considered fundamental for excelling in the civic sphere: justice, observance, fortitude, magnificence, prudence, and shame. As we have seen in Chapter 2, the subject of civic virtue is present in some of the texts copied and the illustrations created by Romigi de’ Ricci and Zanobi Perini. In this chapter, I explore how youths born into the wealthy merchant class, who were destined to participate in government at some point in their adult lives, could be introduced to those virtues by the Fior di virtù and its animal similes.
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- Learning through Images in the Italian RenaissanceIllustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence, pp. 80 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020