CHAPTER II. IDEALS OF ELOQUENCE AND SILENCE IN PETRARCH

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. INTRODUCTION xi
4. CONTENTS xix
5. PART ONE. PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMANIST DEFENSE OF RHETORIC
6. CHAPTER I. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY : THE CICERONIAN MODEL 3
7. CHAPTER II. IDEALS OF ELOQUENCE AND SILENCE IN PETRARCH 31
8. CHAPTER III. WISDOM AND ELOQUENCE IN SALUTATI , AND THE " PETRARCH CONTROVERSY" OF 1405-1406 63
9. CHAPTER IV. LEONARDO BRUNI AND THE NEW ARISTOTLE 99
10. CHAPTER V. LORENZO VALLA AND THE SUBORDINATION OF PHILOSOPHY TO RHETORIC 137
11. PART TWO SOME CONTEXTS OF PETRARCHIAN HUMANISM
12. CHAPTER VI. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE 173
13. CHAPTER VII. FROM THE DICTATORES TO THE HUMANISTS 200
14. CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL SETTING OF THE HUMANIST MOVEMENT 226
15. CONCLUSION 255
16. INDEX 263