Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric / / ed. by Wayne A. Rebhorn.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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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