Note 67 — Chapter III · THE CHILDREN

Maffeo Vegio, a disciple and the biographer of St. Bernardin of Sienna, secretary of Pope Martin V., was a very eminent humanist at the beginning of the 16th century. He added a supplementary book to the Aeneid. He was ranked much higher than Petrarch. The book cited, De educatione liberorum et eorum claris moribus, often republished since 1491 and issued in a French translation in 1508, is a very remarkable work, and exercised a great influence. It seems, however, to have escaped the researches of the historians of education.