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History, rhetoric, and proof / Carlo Ginzburg.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) D13 .G397 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginzburg, Carlo, author.
- Series:
- Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures
- The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle.
- Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457. De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio.
- Valla, Lorenzo.
- Jesuits.
- Historiography.
- Rhetoric.
- De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio (Valla, Lorenzo).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 119 pages ; 23 cm.
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1999.
- Summary:
- One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.
- Contents:
- Aristotle and history, once more
- Lorenzo Valla on the "donation of Constantine"
- Alien voices: the dialogic element in early modern Jesuit historiography
- Reflections on a blank.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0874519322
- 9780874519327
- 0874519330
- 9780874519334
- OCLC:
- 41338036
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