Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric / Wayne A. Rebhorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebhorn, Wayne A.

Rebhorn, Wayne A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

European literature.

Rhetoric, Renaissance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 322 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 culture. Was rhetoric a valuable tool of legitimation for rulers or a dangerous instrument of resistance to political and religious authority? Would its employment maintain the social hierarchy or foster social mobility? Was rhetoric merely the art of lies or was it a means to arrive at the only form of truth available to human beings? In this fascinating volume, Wayne A. Rebhorn enables modern-day readers to follow Renaissance thinkers as they struggle with these and other crucial questions about rhetoric.Arranged chronologically, the twenty-five selections in this anthology, most of which have never before appeared in English, include key texts by Petrarch, Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon, Ramus, Wilson, Amyot, and Bacon. All the selections have been fully annotated and have headnotes providing essential background information. In addition, the volume features a biographical glossary of frequently mentioned historical and mythological figures, a comprehensive index, and a detailed bibliography.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501729645

1501729640

OCLC:

1080550882