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.
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