Short answers, pulled from the story.
André de Gouveia (1497 - the 9th of June 1548) was a Portuguese humanist and pedagogue who became one of the leading educational reformers of the Renaissance. He directed the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, led the College of Guienne in Bordeaux, and was invited by King John III to head the College of the Arts at the University of Coimbra.
Montaigne described Gouveia in his Essays as "behind comparison the greatest principal in France." Montaigne was a student at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux during Gouveia's tenure as principal.
The Schola Aquitanica was a published record of the regulations André de Gouveia drew up for the College of Guienne in Bordeaux. It was published in 1583 by Élie Vinet, one of the foreign scholars Gouveia had brought to the University of Coimbra.
Gouveia appointed George Buchanan as professor of Latin at the College of Guienne in 1539. Buchanan later accompanied Gouveia to the University of Coimbra, where he was among the teachers called before the Inquisition.
Gouveia maintained extensive contacts with European scholars and Portuguese merchants during his years in France, and he cultivated the humanist and reformist religious ideas that spread through institutions like the Collège Sainte-Barbe. His rivalry with his uncle Diogo de Gouveia, who led the more orthodox Parisian school, sharpened suspicions about his religious leanings.
Étienne de La Boétie and Michel de Montaigne both studied at the College of Guienne during Gouveia's tenure. After his death, Julius Caesar Scaliger sent his sons to the college, including Joseph Justus Scaliger, reflecting the lasting reputation Gouveia had built there.