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This is a full-length study of the use of the dialogue form in Italy from the early sixteenth century until Galileo. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it examines the characteristics which determined the genre's unrivalled popularity in the period as a vehicle for polemic, debate, technical exposition and comic drama. More than simply an account of the development of an individual literary genre, however, the book is a contribution to the broader social and cultural history of the period. As representations of conversation, miniature dramas of persuasion, the dialogues of the Italian Renaissance constitute an extraordinarily rich - and largely untapped - source of information about the ideals and practice of communication in the early modern age.

Italian literature --- History of civilization --- Sociolinguistics --- anno 1500-1799 --- Italy --- Dialogues, Italian --- Renaissance --- History and criticism. --- Dialogues [Italian ] --- History and criticism --- 16th century --- 17th century --- Civilization --- 1268-1559 --- 1559-1789 --- Dialogues, Italian - History and criticism. --- Italian literature - 16th century - History and criticism. --- Italian literature - 17th century - History and criticism. --- Reniassance - Italy. --- Italy - Civilization - 1268-1559. --- Italy - Civilization - 1559-1789. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Italian dialogues

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This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the Italian Reform movement. Until recently best known for her close spiritual friendship with Michelangelo, she is increasingly recognized as a powerful and distinctive poetic voice, a cultural and religious icon, and an important literary model for both men and women. This volume comprises compelling new research by established and emerging scholars in the fields of literature, book history, religious history, and art history, including several studies of Colonna's influence during the Counter-Reformation, a period long neglected by Italian cultural historiography. The Colonna who emerges from this new reading is one who challenges traditional constructions of women's place in Italian literature; no mere imitator or follower, but an innovator and founder of schools in her own right.

Colonna, Vittoria, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Colonna, V. --- Enriquez, Vittoria Colonna, --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Vittoria Colonna, Italian Renaissance, women's writing, Reformation, Counter-Reformation. --- Italian poetry

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This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione , and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium . The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation of the place of classical rhetoric in medieval culture, and will serve to revise views of a period seen until recently as largely indifferent to the values of ‘eloquence’. The main body of the volume is composed of a series of ground-breaking studies of the relationship between Ciceronian rhetoric and a wide range of intellectual traditions and cultural practices, including dialectic, law, conduct theory, memory, poetics and practical composition teaching, preaching, ars dictaminis, and political oratory. Also included are important contextualizing essays on the commentary tradition of the Ciceronian juvenilia, on the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero’s rhetorical works, and on the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in Italy. The volume concludes with an annotated appendix of illustrative texts containing extracts from the commentary tradition on Ciceronian rhetoric, most of which have not been previously available in printing.

Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius --- T︠S︡it︠s︡eron, Mark Tulliĭ --- Cyceron --- Cicéron --- Kikerōn --- Cicerón, M. Tulio --- Ḳiḳero --- Cicerone --- M. Tulli Ciceronis --- Cicéron, Marcus --- Cicerón, Marco Tulio --- Ḳiḳero, Marḳus Ṭulyus --- Tullius Cicero, Marcus --- Cicerone, M. T. --- Kikerōn, M. T. --- Cicerone, M. Tullio --- Cicero --- Cicero, M. T. --- Cyceron, Marek Tulliusz --- ציצרון, מארקוס טולליוס --- קיקרו, מארקוס טוליוס --- קיקרו, מרקוס טוליוס --- キケロ --- 西塞罗 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Rhétorique médiévale

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Women and literature --- Italian literature --- Literature --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- History. --- Women authors --- History and criticism.