17. Why should a license from the Church have been necessary to print a
book? Have we any remaining vestiges of this church control over books?

18. Do you see any special reason why Venice should have become the early
center of the book trade?

19. Show how the printing-press became "a formidable rival to the pulpit
and the sermon, and one of the greatest instruments for human progress and
liberty."

20. One writer has characterized the Revival of Learning as the beginnings
of the emergence of the individual from institutional control, and the
substitution of the humanities for the divinities as the basis of
education. Is this a good characterization of a phase of the movement?

21. Counting each edition of a printed book at only three hundred copies,
how many volumes had been printed before 1500 at the places listed in
footnote 3, page 257?


SELECTED READINGS

In the accompanying _Book of Readings_ the following selections are
reproduced:

125. Petrarch: On copying a Work of Cicero.
126. Benvenuto: Boccaccio's Visit to the Library at Monte Cassino.
127. Symonds: Finding of Quintilian's _Institutes_ at Saint Gall.
(a) Letter of Poggio Bracciolini on the "Find."
(b) Reply of Lionardo Bruni.