Bruni on the Greek Language and Education

Leonardo Bruni, on the Greek Language and Learning and Literature
1. Love of Greek Literature
A. Chrysoloras the Byzantine, the carrier of Greek to Latin scholars, became the teacher of the feverish student Bruni
B. Bruni claims that it is silly to not know the language that all knowledge draws from, going on to list Homer, Plato, and Demosthenes.
2. On Learning and Literature
A. All Learning must be based on understanding Latin, and knowledge of the language will ensure good scholarship elsewhere
B. From oratory, Bruni claims that we derive our elegant and elevated manners of speech from the great classical orators such as Cicero
C. Bruni stresses history as a very important study to master, claiming its influence in politics, or warns the government of past mistakes. The Historians to be credited are Livy, Sallust, Curtius, and Caesar
D. Bruni states that all great minds: Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero all cite Greek Authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Pindar and Euripides
E. In the writings of the Greeks the Renaissance scholar finds non-Christian thought about the nature of the universe