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Tables of Contents for Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
13
Francis Petrarch
14
4
Letter to Tommaso da Messina, Concerning the Study of Eloquence
15
3
Coluccio Salutati
18
9
On Petrarch's Eloquence
19
8
George of Trebizond (Trapezuntius)
27
8
From Five Books on Rhetoric
28
3
From An Oration in Praise of Eloquence
31
4
Lorenzo Valla
35
7
From the Refinements of the Latin Language
36
6
Rudolph Agricola
42
15
From Three Books Concerning Dialectical Invention
43
14
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
57
11
Letter to Ermolao Barbaro
58
10
Desiderius Erasmus
68
8
From Ciceronianus
69
7
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
76
6
From On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences
77
5
Juan Luis Vives
82
15
From On the Causes of the Corruption of the Arts
83
10
From On Teaching the Disciplines
93
4
Philip Melanchthon
97
14
From The Praise of Eloquence
98
13
Sperone Speroni
111
17
From Dialogue on Rhetoric
112
16
Jacques Amyot
128
12
From An Epitome of Royal Eloquence
129
11
Anton Maria de' Conti
140
12
From A Dialogue on Eloquence
140
12
Peter Ramus
152
9
From Logic
153
8
John Jewel
161
12
Oration against Rhetoric
162
11
Thomas Wilson
173
10
From the Art of Rhetoric
174
9
Francesco Patrizi
183
20
From Ten Dialogues on Rhetoric
184
19
George Puttenham
203
15
From The Art of English Poesy
204
14
Michel de Montaigne
218
5
On the Vanity of Words
219
4
Henry Peacham
223
10
From the Garden of Eloquence
224
9
Juan de Guzman
233
11
From The First Part of Rhetoric
233
11
Guillaume du Vair
244
17
From On French Eloquence
244
17
Francis Bacon
261
12
From The New Organon
262
3
From The Advancement of Learning
265
6
From On the Wisdom of the Ancients
271
2
Nicholas Caussin
273
11
From On Sacred and Profane Eloquence
274
10
Jean-Francois Le Grand
284
11
From A Discourse on French Rhetoric
284
11
Biographical Glossary
295
14
Bibliography
309
6
Index
315