ABSTRACT
It is perhaps fitting to end this book with another case of a failed father and an uncle who was to act as a surrogate. In April 1534, a schoolmaster in Freiburg named Urban Hanteler wrote to Boniface Amerbach about his nephew Johannes Rechberger (the son of Margarete neé Amerbach and Jakob Rechberger) who was studying with Hanteler. Hanteler wrote:
since his allowance is so slim (he is scarcely able to live on it), I am forced to ask for the money not only for last term but also for the previous one, which is extremely tedious. I wish that his father, since he is not poor, would send him some money. 1
