Da Parrasio a Maioragio: la scuola, luogo dell'elaborazione culturale

[Autom. eng. transl.] The figures of the humanists Aulo Giano Parrasio, from Cosenza present in Milan between 1499 and 1506, and Marc'Antonio Maioragio, Milanese active between the beginning of the 1640s and 1555, the year of death, both Greek students and lecturers of Latin and eloquence in the Milanese Schools, they delimit half a century of activity of the School itself, a place of elaboration and promotion of a literary culture aimed at the study of the classics and of the great rhetorical and oratory tradition. We focus in particular on the cultural and pedagogical commitment of the Maioragio, focused through some of his orations, always strictly Latin, addressed to the young Milanese, centered on the value of study and the primacy of letters, poetry and eloquence, as well as through the unfinished speech to the governor Alfonso d'Avalos in which the learned humanist puts forward a proposal to establish a public library in Milan.