Margarita philosophica

…the day in his brief Margarita philosophica, which correctly interpreted the taste of the younger generation at the end of the 15th century.

…all encyclopaedias is the little Margarita philosophica that Gregor Reisch (died 1525) wrote for young people. In some 200 pages he contrived to cover in a very pleasing style the whole university course of the day, both the trivium and the quadrivium (see liberal arts). The arrival of humanism is…