Paul F. Grendler is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto and former president of the Renaissance Society of America. He is the editor-in-chief of the prize-winning Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and author of nine books, including Schooling in Renaissance Italy and The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, both winners of the American Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History and both published by Johns Hopkins.

A much needed, comprehensive survey of pre-university schooling in Renaissance Italy. Historian Grendler is to be congratulated for bridging the chasm between social and intellectual history. This book does both expertly. Renaissance Quarterly