Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
086078875X
ISBN-13
9780860788751
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 9th, 2002
Print length
322 Pages
Weight
595 grams
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcEuropean historyEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500Philosophy
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This study seeks the origins of Italian humanism and the birth of modern republican thought in medieval poetry and prose. It examines the "Laudatio urbis florentinae" of Leonardo Bruni. The author identifies this as a shift from one rhetorical style to another - a shift reflected in other genres.
These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval political thought on the rise of the modern conception of republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of letter writing and its place in the medieval cultural context; while still others analyse the often contradictory thought of the early humanist, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who struggled to reconcile his classical learning with his medieval allegiances. In the collection as a whole humanism emerges as a literary movement drawing as heavily on patristic and medieval culture as on antiquity. Awareness of its various debts permits recognition of what humanism itself contributed to the development of western thought and ethics.
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