Vives On Education |
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Author:
| Vives, Juan Luis |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-41596-5 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $21.71 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II JUAN LUIS VIVES By birth, Juan Luis Vives was a Spaniard, of the city of Valencia. He received his school education at Valencia, and spent his college life in the University of Paris. His manhood was spent in Louvain and Bruges, chiefly the latter, with, between 1522 and 1528, portions of the...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II JUAN LUIS VIVES By birth, Juan Luis Vives was a Spaniard, of the city of Valencia. He received his school education at Valencia, and spent his college life in the University of Paris. His manhood was spent in Louvain and Bruges, chiefly the latter, with, between 1522 and 1528, portions of the year spent in residence in England. It will be convenient to deal with the formative influences in his development in connexion with those cities in which he lived. (i) Vives at Valencia. Vives was born in the year of the discovery of America by Columbus, 1492; a few days after the Moorish Granada fell into the hands of Ferdinand and Isabella. His father's Christian name was also Luis. His mother's maiden name was Blanca March. He was baptised in the Church of St Agnes, a church which still remains in Valencia. The house in which he was born is described by Vives himself1. Vives' father was sprung from an old Spanish noble family tracing itself to the branch known as Vives del Vergel or Verger2. The arms of this family consisted of a square in the azure ground of which there rose a plant of golden-yellowcolour1 which the Spaniards call Perpetuas or Siempre Vivas, and the French immortelles. Vives' mother, Blanca March, was also of illustrious descent, and proudly claimed several well-known poets amongst her ancestry. Nevertheless the parents of Vives were only of moderate means. They were united by a strong tie of affection which is worthily recorded by their son1: 1 In the School Dialogues (Exercitatio Latinae Linguae, 1539) one of the dialogues entitled Leges Ludi, with the sub-title A varied dialogue on the city of Valencia, refers to the house. a Majansius gives an elaborate genealogy of Vives, showing the nobility of his family. See Opera, vol. I. immediat...