liberorum

Note 37: Piccolomini, De liberorum educatione, cited by Schevill, First Century of Italian Humanism, 74.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Because she had already produced the mandatory three children required to benefit from the privileges of the rule of ius liberorum she could afford to live a relatively independent life, excused from the necessity for male guardianship and the financial scrutiny that went with it.29

Caesars’ Wives

Note 300: Piccolomini, De liberorum educatione, cited by Schevill, First Century of Italian Humanism, 76. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Note 45: Piccolomini, De liberorum educatione, cited by Schevill, First Century of Italian Humanism, 74. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Freeborn women who gave birth to three children or more were exempted from male guardianship four children or more were required for freedwomen to be eligible, thanks to the ius trium liberorum, the “three-child rule.”

Caesars’ Wives

Note 20: Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, De liberorum educatione, 1450.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Melancholia semper venit ab jacturam pecuniae, victoriae, repulsam, mortem liberorum, quibus longo post tempore animus torquetur, et a dispositione sit habitus.

Anatomy of Melancholy

Educatio altera natura, alterat animos et voluntatem, atque utinam (inquit) liberorum nostrorum mores non ipsi perderemus, quum infantiam statim deliciis solvimus: mollior ista educatio, quam indulgentiam vocamus, nervos omnes, et mentis et corporis frangit; fit ex his consuetudo, inde natura.

Anatomy of Melancholy

Profectus postea in Britanniam, Alphredi Anglorum Regis, et suorum liberorum factus est pr鎐eptor, atque ipso mox adhortante, inter ocia literaria � Gr鎐o transtulit in tres linguas, scilicet Chaldaicam,

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Vegio, in a treatise De educatione liberorum (ca. 1460), hailed the humanistic restoration of the “universal” education of the ancients (qui orbis doctrinarum appel - latus est).

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