Sperone Speroni and the debate over sophistry in the Italian Renaissance / / by Teodoro Katinis.

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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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 272.
Physical Description:1 online resource (174 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Fifteenth-century Perspectives on Ancient Sophists
  • Speroni and the Sophists
  • Speroni's Practice of Sophistic Rhetoric
  • The Debate on Dante and Sophistic Poetry
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Two Trattatelli of Speroni for Sophistry
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.