Venkatappa Nayaka of Ikkeri

Essays

A Jilted Italian Lover’s Description of Primary Arithmetic Education in Gerusoppa

A Jilted Italian Lover’s Description of Primary Arithmetic Education in Gerusoppa

How a jilted Roman lover of the 16th Century, waiting by a Hanuman porch in Gerusoppa, watched four boys learn arithmetic without paper, pen, ink—or a master.