It is certain that Dante studied the regular curriculum of medieval education, the so-called seven liberal arts, consisting of the Quadrivium and the Trivium.
The arithmetic (without Arabic numerals, be it remembered) and the geometry of the mediaeval quadriviumwere astonishingly clumsy and ineffectual instruments in comparison with the apparatus of modern mathematical method.
And I doubt if the curriculum of any modern university shows so clear and generous a comprehension of what is meant by culture, as this old Trivium and Quadrivium does.
He doubted "that the curriculum of any modern university shows so clear and generous a comprehension of what is meant by culture as this old trivium and quadrivium did.
The mathematical branches of theQuadrivium also were required: arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
Likewise the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, could be studied only in Latin.
The Trivium and Quadrivium made the basis of their studies.
The four branches of the quadrivium were pursued more casually.
Likewise arithmetic and the rest of the quadrivium have place in the cleric's education.
Likewise, some work on Astronomy, which was one of the quadrivium subjects.
It was the subjects of the Quadrivium which were subsequently enlarged in scope by the discoveries of the twelfth century.
