Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 43)
ISBN-13:
9789004098794
ISBN-10:
9004098798
Author:
Peter Mack
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
408 pages
Category:
European History
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ISBN-13:
9789004098794
ISBN-10:
9004098798
Author:
Peter Mack
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
408 pages
Category:
European History
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Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 43) (ISBN-13: 9789004098794 and ISBN-10: 9004098798), written by authors
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This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative renaissance works on the use of language, Lorenzo Valla's Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae (1439) and Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica (1479). Mack attempts to find a path through the controversies which have recently raged around Valla's work, acknowledging the originality and skill of his attack on Aristotelian logic metaphysics, but recognizing the inconsistency (and even the Aristotelianism) of his alternative system. Mack provides the first full commentary on Agricola's work in modern times, establishing its originality and coherence. Far from being a mere popularisation of Valla, De inventione dialectica turns out to be one of the great texts of the Western rhetorical tradition. The book concludes with a survey of Agricola's influence on rhetorical thinking and practices of reading and writing, through print, the educational system, and such intermediaries as Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon and Ramus.
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