Classicità dei principi di Antonio Galateo nel De Educatione

The treaty De educatione, which Galateo dedicated through letters to Crisostomo Colonna from Caggiano, raised the attention among scholars, particularly during the 20th century, since Croce considered it a libellus full of anti-spanish controversy. Actually, the work – created in order to give a vademècum to both tutors and young people, such as Pirro Castriota in his training age – shows a system of educative priciples inspired to the classical belief and to the School of Athens' philosophical knowledge. Galateo - against the background of Ferdinand of Aragon's affairs, duke of Calabria, and of the questionable spanish customs which threatened the Italian mos – professed his civic belief. He has been able to pass a classical deontologic heritage, with the aim of taking back Greek culture's values, that were specific to the whole Japigia and to the joyous Sallentum, crucible and paradigm of civilisation for the Italian population.