Concerning

the Life and Merits

of

John of Ravenna.

If any among the so-called restorers of science original: Wiederherstellern der Wissenschaften. This 18th-century term refers to the Humanists of the Renaissance who "restored" classical Latin and Greek learning. from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries deserves to have his memory renewed, and his venerable name rescued from oblivion, it is certainly John of Ravenna, the most beloved and meritorious pupil of Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), the Italian poet and scholar often called the "Father of Humanism.". John of Ravenna taught with just as much excellence and widespread benefit as Petrarch had written; and through the oral instruction he provided in the most distinguished cities of Italy, he continued—with equal success and blessing—the great revolution in the manner of teaching and learning which Petrarch had begun through his example and his writings.

John of Ravenna Giovanni di Conversino da Ravenna (1343–1408). A celebrated wandering scholar and teacher whose students included many of the most famous humanists of the next generation. instructed all those immortal men who, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, pulled the works of Roman antiquity out of the dust in which they lay buried in all the lands of Europe, and spread the newer and better knowledge they contained throughout all of Italy. He formed not only the mind but also the heart of his listeners; and through his, and