Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic

✍ Scribed by Peter Mack

Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 410
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 43
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative renaissance works on the use of language, Lorenzo Valla's 'Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae' (1439) and Rudolph Agricola's 'De inventione dialectica' (1479). Mack attempts to find a path through the controversies which have recently raged around Valla's work, acknowledging the originality and skill of his attack on Aristotelian logic metaphysics, but recognizing the inconsistency (and even the Aristotelianism) of his alternative system. Mack provides the first full commentary on Agricola's work in modern times, establishing its originality and coherence. Far from being a mere popularisation of Valla, 'De inventione dialectica' turns out to be one of the great texts of the Western rhetorical tradition. The book concludes with a survey of Agricola's influence on rhetorical thinking and practices of reading and writing, through print, the educational system, and such intermediaries as Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon and Ramus.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface ix
I. Rhetoric, Dialectic and the Use of Language 1
II. Valla's 'Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae' 22
ΙII. Categories and Metaphysics 37
IV. Valla's Contribution to Logic 74
V. Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectic in 'Repastinatio' 96
VI. Rudolph Agricola and' De inventione dialectica' 117
VII. Agricola's Topics 130
VIII. Dialectical Invention 168
IX. Exposition and Argumentation 190
X. Book Three: Moving, Pleasing and Disposition 203
XI. The Use of Dialectic 227
ΧII. 'De inventione dialectica' in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic 244
ΧΙII. The Diffusion of 'De inventione dialectica' 257
XIV. The Reception of 'De inventione dialectica' 280
XV. Erasmus and Vives 303
XVI. Melanchthon 320
XVII. Ramus 334
XVIII. Conclusion: 'De inventione dialectica' in the sixteenth century 356
Select Bibliography 375
General Index 387
Index to Passages from 'Repastinatio' 393
Index to Passages from 'De inventione dialectica' 394

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