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Sperone Speroni and the debate over sophistry in the Italian Renaissance /

In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Leonardo Bruni to Ja...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Katinis, Teodoro (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Colección:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Fifteenth-century Perspectives on Ancient Sophists
  • 1.1 The Ancients and the Humanists
  • 1.2 Gorgias Redivivus
  • 1.3 Protagoras and Humanist Literature
  • 1.4 Marsilio Ficinoâ#x80;#x99;s Interpretation of Sophists
  • 1.5 Toward the 16th Century
  • Chapter 2 Speroni and the Sophists
  • 2.1 Orator et Philosophus
  • 2.2 Defense and Rehabilitation of Sophistry
  • 2.3 The Dialogo della retorica
  • Chapter 3 Speroniâ#x80;#x99;s Practice of Sophistic Rhetoric
  • 3.1 From Theory to Practice
  • 3.2 Antilogies
  • 3.3 Rhetoric in DialoguesChapter 4 The Debate on Dante and Sophistic Poetry
  • 4.1 Looking at the Debate on Dante from a New Perspective
  • 4.2 Tassoâ#x80;#x99;s Concern about Poetry: An Overview of the Late Cinquecento
  • 4.3 Crafting Idols: Jacopo Mazzoniâ#x80;#x99;s Poetics
  • 4.4 Dante among Sophists and Skeptics
  • 4.5 Ut Pictura Poesis: Mazzoni, Speroni, Comanini
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Two Trattatelli of Speroni for Sophistry
  • Bibliography