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[ SOLD OUT ] MURPHY, J.J., (ed.), Renaissance Eloquence. Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric. University of California Press, Berkeley (...), 1983. X,472p. Original burgundy cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps a bit worn, mainly to the edges. A few light remains of pencil strikes in margins. A.o.: P.O. KRISTELLER: Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (pp.1-20); D. A. LaRUSSO: Rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance (pp.37-56); J.O. WARD: Renaissance Commentators on Ciceronian Rhetoric (pp.126-174); NANCY STRUEVER: Lorenzo Valla: Humanist Rhetoric and the Critique of the Classical Languages of Morality (pp.191-207); J. DYCK: The First German Treatise on Homiletics: Erasmus Sarcer's 'Pastorale' and Classical Rhetoric (pp.221-238); W. KEITH PERCIAL: Grammar and Rhetoric in the Renaissance (pp.303-331); H.F. PLETT: The Place and Function of Style in Renaissance Poetics (pp.356-376);B. VICKERS: 'The Poser of Persuasion': Images of the Orator; Elyot to Shakespeare (pp.411-437). (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780520045439