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Book SynopsisThe combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla--Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first of all professional rhetoricians, completely commit
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. xi*CONTENTS, pg. xix*CHAPTER I. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY : THE CICERONIAN MODEL, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. IDEALS OF ELOQUENCE AND SILENCE IN PETRARCH, pg. 31*CHAPTER III. WISDOM AND ELOQUENCE IN SALUTATI , AND THE " PETRARCH CONTROVERSY" OF 1405-1406, pg. 63*CHAPTER IV. LEONARDO BRUNI AND THE NEW ARISTOTLE, pg. 99*CHAPTER V. LORENZO VALLA AND THE SUBORDINATION OF PHILOSOPHY TO RHETORIC, pg. 137*CHAPTER VI. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE, pg. 173*CHAPTER VII. FROM THE DICTATORES TO THE HUMANISTS, pg. 200*CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL SETTING OF THE HUMANIST MOVEMENT, pg. 226*CONCLUSION, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 263
