ABSTRACT
In 1506, Johannes Amerbach sent his son Bruno to Paris for advanced study with the renowned Greek scholar Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples. 1 He wrote,
Therefore, my dear sir, I entrust my son to you … for his instruction … I entreat and implore you to turn your kind glance on my son and even correct him sharply when he needs it, so that he does not waste his time or my resources (I pay him as much as I am able) and does not spend them in vain, but in study. For this reason, excellent sir, I appoint you his master and censor, and entrust to you my whole burden. 2
