XV. CULINA—_The Kitchen_ 117 XVI. TRICLINIUM—_The Dining-room_ 125 XVII. CONVIVIUM—_The Banquet_ 132 XVIII. EBRIETAS—_Drunkenness_ 150 XIX. REGIA—_The King’s Palace_ 163 XX. PRINCEPS PUER—_The Young Prince_ 172 XXI. LUDUS CHARTARUM SEU FOLIORUM—_Card-playing or Paper-games_ 185 XXII. LEGES LUDI—_Laws of Playing_ 198 XXIII. CORPUS HOMINIS EXTERIUS—_The Exterior of Man’s Body_ 210 XXIV. EDUCATIO—_Education_ 219 XXV. PRAECEPTA EDUCATIONIS—_The Precepts of Education_ 234 INDEX 243 INTRODUCTION J. L. VIVES: A SCHOLAR OF THE RENASCENCE 1492–1492 Erasmus was born in 1466, Budé (Budaeus) in 1468, and Vives in 1492. These great men were regarded by their contemporaries as a triumvirate of leaders of the Renascence movement, at any rate outside of Italy. The name of Erasmus is now the most generally known of the three, but in one of his letters Erasmus stated his fear that he would be eclipsed by Vives. No doubt Erasmus was the greatest propagandist of Renascence ideas and the Renascence spirit. No doubt Budé, by his _Commentarii Linguae Graecae_ (1529), established himself as the greatest Greek scholar of the age. Equally, without doubt, it would appear to those who have studied the educational writings of Erasmus, Budé, and Vives, the claim might reasonably be entered for J. L. Vives that his _De Tradendis Disciplinis_ placed him first of the three as a writer on educational theory and practice. In 1539 Vives published at Paris the _Linguae Latinae Exercitatio_, _i.e._, the _School Dialogues_ which are for the first time, in the present volume, presented to the English reader.