Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure
debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric. In a host of
treatises, handbooks, letters, and orations, written in both Latin
and the vernacular, they attempted to assess the central role that
rhetoric dearly played in their culture. Was rhetoric a valuable
tool of legitimation for rulers or a dangerous instrument of
resistance to political and religious authority? Would its
employment maintain the social hierarchy or foster social mobility?
Was rhetoric merely the art of lies or was it a means to arrive at
the only form of truth available to human beings? In this
fascinating volume, Wayne A. Rebhorn enables modern-day readers to
follow Renaissance thinkers as they struggle with these and other
crucial questions about rhetoric.
Arranged chronologically, the twenty-five selections in this
anthology, most of which have never before appeared in English,
include key texts by Petrarch, Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon,
Ramus, Wilson, Amyot, and Bacon. All the selections have been fully
annotated and have headnotes providing essential background
information. In addition, the volume features a biographical
glossary of frequently mentioned historical and mythological
figures, a comprehensive index, and a detailed bibliography.
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