Editing Rodolphus Agricola (section)

== Legacy ==
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''De inventione dialectica'' was influential in creating a place for logic in rhetorical studies and was of significance in the education of early humanists. It was a critical and systematic treatment of ideas and concepts related to dialectics.

<blockquote>The significance of ''De inventione dialectica'' for the history of argumentation is that it assimilated the art of dialectic to that of rhetoric. Argumentation focused not on truth but on what might be said with reason. Accordingly, Agricola focused on the ''Topics'' rather than the ''Analytics'' of [[Aristotle]] and on [[Cicero]], but also on the writings of historians, poets, and orators. Thus, for Agricola, dialectic was an open field; the art of finding "whatever can be said with any degree of probability on any subject." (Hamilton, David. ''From Dialectic to Didactic'').</blockquote>

Agricola was also important to the [[deaf]] community, since he believed that people who are born deaf can express themselves by putting their thoughts into writing. His statement that deaf people can be taught a language is one of the earliest positive statements about deafness on record (Gannon, 1981).

Agricola's ''De formando studio''—his long letter on a private educational program—was printed as a small booklet and influenced pedagogy of the early sixteenth century.

Agricola was also important for his personal influence over others. [[Erasmus]] admired Agricola, eulogizing him in "Adagia" and calling him "the first to bring a breath of better literature from Italy." Erasmus claimed him as a father/teacher figure and may have met him through his own schoolmaster [[Alexander Hegius]] (most probably one of Agricola's students) at Hegius's School in Deventer. In addition to Hegius, Agricola's students include [[Conrad Celtis]] (in Heidelberg).

Erasmus made it his personal mission to ensure that several of Agricola's major works were printed posthumously. Agricola's literary executor was Adolphus Occo, a physician of Augsburg. By about 1530 disciples and followers had gathered the manuscripts left by Agricola, and these were edited by [[Alardus of Amsterdam]].<ref name="AkkermanVanderjagt1988">{{cite book|author1=Fokke Akkerman|author2=Arie Johan Vanderjagt|title=Rodolphus Agricola Phrisius, 1444-1485: Proceedings of the International Conference at the University of Groningen, 28-30 October 1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJWnpWQ0fJUC&pg=PA42|year=1988|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-08599-2|page=42}}</ref>