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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy (Hardcover)
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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy (Hardcover)
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In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from
Cicero to his best friend, Atticus, he discovered an intimate
Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of
the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools
of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously
unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally
changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth
centuries were expected to read and write. The "Renaissance
Rediscovery of Intimacy" explores the way ancient epistolary theory
and practice were understood and imitated in the European
Renaissance. Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca
- but also upon Plato, Demetrius, Quintilian, and many others - to
show how the classical genre of the "familiar" letter emerged
centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch, Erasmus, and
Montaigne. Along the way, she reveals how the complex concept of
intimacy in the Renaissance - leveraging the legal, affective, and
stylistic dimensions of its prehistory in antiquity - pervades the
literary production and reception of the period and sets the course
for much that is modern in the literature of subsequent centuries.
Eden's important study will interest students and scholars in a
number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern
studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading,
rhetoric, and writing.
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