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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism /

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla--Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seigel, Jerrold E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CONTENTS
  • PART ONE. PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMANIST DEFENSE OF RHETORIC
  • CHAPTER I. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY : THE CICERONIAN MODEL
  • CHAPTER II. IDEALS OF ELOQUENCE AND SILENCE IN PETRARCH
  • CHAPTER III. WISDOM AND ELOQUENCE IN SALUTATI, AND THE " PETRARCH CONTROVERSY" OF 1405-1406
  • CHAPTER IV. LEONARDO BRUNI AND THE NEW ARISTOTLE
  • CHAPTER V. LORENZO VALLA AND THE SUBORDINATION OF PHILOSOPHY TO RHETORIC
  • PART TWO SOME CONTEXTS OF PETRARCHIAN HUMANISM
  • CHAPTER VI. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE
  • CHAPTER VII. FROM THE DICTATORES TO THE HUMANISTS
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL SETTING OF THE HUMANIST MOVEMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • INDEX