ABSTRACT
Grammarians wished to develop new classifications and concepts for the description of the new languages. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw a somewhat belated profusion of Latin grammars throughout Europe, but initially especially in Italy, where people find an early example of a break with tradition: Guarino Veronese's Regulae grammaticales. The influence on Pierfrancesco Giambullari's grammar has been well known ever since the work's publication in 1552; indeed, Giambullari himself stated openly that his model was De emendata structura. As George Arthur Padley observed, 'Even when grammarians of the vernacular finally feel sufficiently confident to launch out on their own and throw off the Latin yoke, they still have to justify themselves within the terms of a Latinizing culture.' The most representative English Renaissance grammarians are John Colet, William Lily and Thomas Linacre; and Oxford was the most important research centre of the period.
