Feltre School is a private non profit school teaching liberal arts located in

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. The school is incorporated as Etica, Inc, trading as The Feltre School. The School was founded by a small group of

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alumni in March 1992. Its mission is to preserve and promote the classical liberal arts. The Feltre School educates adults in English grammar, composition, public speaking, philosophy, and the humanities. The name and philosophy for the school was inspired by the work of the fifteenth-century Italian educator

Vittorino da Feltre Vittorino da Feltre (1378February 2, 1446) was an Italian humanist and teacher. He was born in Feltre, Belluno, Republic of Venice and died in Mantua. His real name was Vittorino Rambaldoni. It was in Vittorino that the Renaissance idea of the com ...

. The Feltre School teaches the high educational ideals of the classical

Trivium The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The trivium is implicit in ''De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii'' ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella, but t ...

. The Feltre School resides in one of the few remaining turn-of-the-century brick buildings in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. The building was originally built in 1905 as the Chicago Deaconesses' Home and had become commercial property by the time The Feltre School purchased it in 1998. The School was earlier located in downtown

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. The Director of The Feltre School is Robert Ultimo. The school houses the Library Theatre, a venue for small scale theatre and literary events.

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