Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism / / Jerrold E. Seigel.
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 of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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