Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic.
Charles G. Nauert|Peter Mack
This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative renaissance works on use language, Lorenzo Valla's Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae (1439) and Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica (1479). Mack attempts to find path through controversies which have recently raged around work, acknowledging originality skill his attack Aristotelian logic metaphysics, but recognizing inconsistency (and even Aristotelianism) alternative system. provides first full commentary work in modern times, establishing its coherence. Far from being mere popularisation Valla, turns out be one great texts Western rhetorical tradition. The concludes with survey influence thinking practices reading writing, print, educational system, such intermediaries as Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon Ramus.
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