Author : Juan Luis Vives
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004223649
This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition of Declamations 3,4, and 5, comprising the abdication speech of the Roman Republican dictator Sulla, followed by Lepidus the new consul’s two unrestrained attacks on Sulla's morals, henchmen, and political program.
Author : Juan Luis Vives
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 900445134X
This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition, with introduction, notes, and indices, of the first two of Vives' five dramatic speeches on the theme of the abdication of the late Roman Republican dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. These speeches belong among Vives' experiments, in the years 1514-1523, with various imaginative genres, in which he was trying techniques of personal involvement of both himself and the reader in exploration of pressing issues, whether political, ethical, or esthetic. The fundamental theme is the danger of ruling by fear. Sulla's two friends, Fundanus and Fonteius, counsel respectively against and for Sulla's retirement when Rome is full of vengeful survivors of his savage proscriptions.
Author : Juan Luis Vives
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004228624
This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition of Declamations 3,4, and 5, comprising the abdication speech of the Roman Republican dictator Sulla, followed by Lepidus the new consul’s two unrestrained attacks on Sulla's morals, henchmen, and political program.
Author : Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1989-02-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789061863380
Volume 38
Author : Charles Fantazzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9047442024
The extraordinarily diverse oeuvre of Juan Luis Vives, marked by great erudition and originality, still remains very little known in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays considers his life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief works. These include his books on the education of women and on the relief of the poor, his numerous political writings, and his huge encyclopedic treatise, De disciplinis, a comprehensive critical and systematic review of universal learning and the state of the academic disciplines at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters discuss Vives's ideas on the soul, especially his analysis of the emotions, his contribution to rhetoric and dialectic and a posthumous defense of the Christian religion in dialogue form. Contributors are Enrique Gonzalez Gonzalez, Catherine Curtis, Peter Mack, Valerio Del Nero, Edward V. George.
Author : Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300230419
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colón This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together copies of every book, on every subject and in every language. Pérez Fernández and Wilson-Lee situate Hernando's projects within the rapidly changing landscape of early modern knowledge, providing a concise history of the collection of information and the origins of public libraries, examining the challenges he faced and the solutions he devised. The two authors combine "meticulous research with deep and original thought," shedding light on the history of libraries and the organization of knowledge. The result is an essential reference text for scholars of the early modern period, and for anyone interested in the expansion and dissemination of information and knowledge.
Author : Juan Luis Vives
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004400192
The De Europae dissidiis et republica (On Conflicts in Europe and on the Commonwealth) is a collection published by Vives in 1526 that has been called his “summa politica.” It contains five letters, to Henry VIII and three prelates including Cardinal Wolsey; a Lucian-style underworld satire on European wars and the Turkish threat; and Latinizations of two political speeches by Isocrates. It counsels the pursuit of peace following Christian principles, but it also explores the possibility of an aggressive war against the Turks as the means of unifying and saving European Christendom. It urges the calling of a council to deal with Luther. We present critical Latin texts and, for the first time, English translations, with introduction and notes.
Author : Dirk Sacré
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9058677508
This collective volume has been dedicated to two distinguished scholars of Neo-Latin Studies on the occasion of their retirement after a long and fruitful academic career, one at the Université catholique Louvain-la-Neuve, the other at the internationally renowned Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of Leuven University. Both the rich variety of subjects dealt with and the international diversity of the scholars authoring contributions reflect the wide interests of the celebrated Neo-Latinists, their international position, and the actual status of the discipline itself. Ranging from the Trecento to the 21st century, and embracing Latin writings from Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, the New World, Spain, Scotland, Denmark and China, this volume is as rich and multifaceted as it is voluminous, for it not only offers studies on well-known figures such as Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Thomas More, Eobanus Hessus, Lipsius, Tycho Brahe, Jean de la Fontaine and Jacob Cats, but it also includes new contributions on Renaissance commentaries and editions of classical authors such as Homer, Seneca and Horace; on Neo-Latin novels, epistolography and Renaissance rhetoric; on Latin translations from the vernacular and invectives against Napoleon; on the teaching of Latin in the 19th century; and on the didactics of Neo-Latin nowadays.
Author : Jozef IJsewijn
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789061868163
The articles in this volume reflect the wide interest of the Jozef Ijsewijn. They cover a period of almost 300 years, from an early 15th-century commentary on Cicero's speeches to the oratory in the eighteenth-century Amsterdam Athenaeum of P. Francius.
Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000948331
In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the civil communities. The first section looks both at contemporary historians employing rhetorical constructs and tactics and at contemporary accounts of the employment of rhetorical pedagogical material and theoretical texts in medieval and Renaissance cultural practices. The second set of articles considers change and continuity in the rhetorical exploitation's of genre forms in cultural programs, focuses on the strong reorientation of Classical forms of moral inquiry, on the ingenious use of the proverb, of etymology, of the exemplum, as well as on the changes in strategies in the theater, the novel, and art criticism. The final section deals with the strong historical interconnections of rhetoric with other disciplines: the motives and investigative tactics of medicine and rhetoric in the Renaissance and Early Modernity, and the shared interests and interwoven careers of rhetoric and law.
