Chapter III: First Period of Humanism

Condition of the Universities in Italy -- Bologna -- High Schools
founded from it -- Naples under Frederick II. -- Under the House of
Anjou -- Ferrara -- Piacenza -- Perugia -- Rome -- Pisa -- Florence --
Imperial and Papal Charters -- Foreign Students -- Professorial Staff
-- Subjects taught in the High Schools -- Place assigned to Humanism
-- Pay of the Professors of Eloquence -- Francesco Filelfo -- The
Humanists less powerful at the Universities -- Method of Humanistic
Teaching -- The Book Market before Printing -- Mediæval Libraries --
Cost of Manuscripts -- 'Stationarii' and 'Peciarii' -- Negligence of
Copyists -- Discovery of Classical Codices -- Boccaccio at Monte
Cassino -- Poggio at Constance -- Convent of S. Gallen -- Bruni's
Letter to Poggio -- Manuscripts Discovered by Poggio -- Nicholas of
Treves -- Collection of Greek Manuscripts -- Aurispa, Filelfo, and
Guarino -- The Ruins of Rome -- Their Influence on Humanism -- Dante
and Villani -- Rienzi -- His Idealistic Patriotism -- Vanity --
Political Incompetence -- Petrarch's Relations with Rienzi -- Injury
to Monuments in Rome -- Poggio's Roman Topography -- Sentimental
Feeling for the Ruins of Antiquity -- Ciriac of Ancona 83