The Readings Gene H. Bell-Villada
Garcia Marquez,
01/2010
Book Chapter
For all his ordinariness, his plebeian perspective, and his insistence that he is still basically one of the eleven offspring of the telegraph operator of Aracataca, García Márquez is a man of wide ...erudition, literary and otherwise. It is also true that he makes little display of his book learning, owing in part to his healthy suspicion of any pomp or solemnity surrounding literature. A novel for García Márquez is a practical concern, something that the writer writes and readers then read and perhaps enjoy. He has consistently manifested a benign indifference to the process whereby great works of human
Diamante Medaglia Faini Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
The Contest for Knowledge,
05/2005
Book Chapter
This chapter presents an oratory made by Diamante Medaglia Faini before Unanimi of Salò to champion women's education. Implicitly rejecting the example of her own intellectual trajectory in her ...oration, Medaglia Faini advocated a remarkable curriculum for women virtually devoid of the conventional literary instruction with its emphasis on poetry reading and composition. Instead, she argued for a “feminine” education steeped in philosophy and the sciences, religious history, logic, and, most importantly, mathematics and physics. She cited Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and Horace to defend the primacy of philosophy and science in her curriculum. Anticipating the likely attacks on the propriety of teaching women classical philosophy, she quoted extensively from such noted theologians as Jean Mabillon, Saint Basil the Great, the French Jansenist Charles Rollin, and the Church Father Clement of Alexandria, all of whom defended the importance of the pagan philosophy in the education of Christian students.
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