Subtilis, Inutilis: The Jesuit Pedagogy of Ingenuity at La Flèche in the Seventeenth Century

Abstract

The Jesuit Pedagogy of Ingenuity at La Flèche in the Seventeenth Century "la philosophie n'est qu'une poesie sophistiquée". 1 Source. The Ingenium Emblem. Image and Commentary [FIG. 1. 'Ingenium emblem', Antoine de Bourgogne, Mundi lapis lydius, sive vanitas per veritatem falsi accusata et convicta (Antwerp: Vve Cnobbaert, 1639), 2-5].