Rare before & nbsp; edition of this interesting and popular school book & nbsp; intended as an introduction to all subjects of humanistic education. & nbsp;
Freig was inspired by the logical method Pierre de La Ramée according to which the discourse is based on arguments or commonplaces. The Paedagogo summarizes the ideal curriculum focused on classical learning and religious education in biblical languages (Greek, Hebrew and Latin), through dichotomous tables and an analysis presented in the form of a question and answer. After a classification of the liberal arts, including a reference list of the most important mainly classical authors and a Latin epigram by the French poet Bartelon Pantaleón of Ravières, & nbsp; the work is divided into 24 chapters each dedicated to a different topic. They concern Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar, with particular attention to classical and biblical texts. Conversation in French on various cultural themes (wine, food, places in the house); poetic rhetoric; logic; geometry (the axis and its use in astronomy and land measurement; coining); architecture (materials, buildings and their arrangement, with a paragraph on the library); physics, based on the Tolomeus model; then ethics, economics, politics, military activities (armies, armor, encampment); history; law and medicine (diseases and their symptoms, with a section on the plague). The chapter on music is the largest and highlights the distance between musical theory and practice. It mainly concerns vocal music along with vernacular psalmody and Latin hymns. Recommended books are the Dodecachordon of Boethius and Heinrich Glarean (1547). Adams, F 1013; BM STC Ger., P. 320. Not in Brunet or in Graesse. & Nbsp; .