Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance ThoughtCommonplace books were the information organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies of their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to use commonplace books. The common place book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and