viii, 322 p
Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
โ Scribed by Wayne A. Rebhorn (editor); Wayne A. Rebhorn (editor)
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 333
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric. In a host of treatises, handbooks, letters, and orations, written in both Latin and the vernacular, they attempted to assess the central...
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Francis Petrarch
2. Coluccio Salutati
3. George of Trebizond (Trapezuntius)
4. Lorenzo Valla
5. Rudolph Agricola
6. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
7. Desiderius Erasmus
8. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
9. Juan Luis Vives
10. Philip Melanchthon
11. Sperone Speroni
12. Jacques Amyot
13. Anton Maria de' Conti
14. Peter Ramus
15. John Jewel
16. Thomas Wilson
17. Francesco Patrizi
18. George Puttenham
19. Michel de Montaigne
20. Henry Peacham
21. Juan de Guzman
22. Guillaume du Vair
23. Francis Bacon
24. Nicholas Caussin
25. Jean-Franc;ois LeGrand
Biographical Glossary of Historical and Mythological Characters
Renaissance Rhetoric: A Selected Bibliography
Index
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