Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric /

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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 role that rhetoric clearly played in their cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rebhorn, Wayne A., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Multiple
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Retorica.
Renaissance
Rhetorik
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
Litterature europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Rhetorique de la Renaissance.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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