TY - BOOK ID - 23719170 TI - Sperone Speroni and the debate over sophistry in the italian Renaissance PY - 2018 VL - 272 SN - 9789004344303 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern. KW - Philosophy, Italian. KW - Philosophy, Renaissance. KW - Sophists (Greek philosophy). KW - Speroni, Sperone, KW - Philosophie et rhétorique KW - Sophistes (philosophie grecque) KW - Philosophie de la Renaissance KW - Influence KW - Speroni, Sperone KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Italie KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Philosophie et rhétorique. KW - Philosophie de la Renaissance. KW - Influence. KW - Philosophy / history & surveys / modern. KW - Philosophie et rhétorique. KW - Critique et interprétation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23719170 AB - 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 Jacopo Mazzoni, with a focus on the Italian writer and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500-1588). Katinis convincingly argues that Speroni is a unique case of an early modern thinker who explicitly rejected Plato's demonization and defended the public role of the sophistic rhetoric, which enhanced the debate over the sophistic arts and scepticism in a variety of fields and anticipated some of the most revolutionary modern thoughts. ER -