Different philosophers and thinkers had contrasted opinions on education and other ideas

of the Renaissance, but they all felt that change was necessary. The "renaissance" was a

rebirth of society and the revival of education brought Europe out of the "Dark Ages."

The Renaissance began in the fourteenth century and it reached its height in the

fiftieth century. During the sixteenth and seventeenth century it spread throughout

Europe. Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini had some of the earliest views on the need for

change in how people were educated. Piccolomini wrote On the Education of Free Man

and he saw the need for more education. Piccolomini felt that it was necessary to study

history in order to be able to ensure a better future. He felt that a world without

education was one where "darkness covers the land."

The great Italian thinker, Baldassare Castiglione deal

educating women was a revolutionary idea, even thought the lengths to which women

thinkers such as Piccolomini. Piccolomini felt that education would save society from a

hardworking bodies than dreamy and contemplative spirits." This is a valid point, because

which was written in 1528 presented an idealized picture of life at court and the

men were thinking at different levels and this is just another value of the Renaissance.

The role of women was also beginning to significantly change during the

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