This is a full-length study of the use of the dialogue form in Italy from the early sixteenth century until Galileo. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it examines the characteristics which determined the genre's unrivalled popularity in the period as a vehicle for polemic, debate, technical exposition and comic drama. More than simply an account of the development of an individual literary genre, however, the book is a contribution to the broader social and cultural history of the period. As representations of conversation, miniature dramas of persuasion, the dialogues of the Italian Renaissance constitute an extraordinarily rich - and largely untapped - source of information about the ideals and practice of communication in the early modern age.
| ISBN | 0521069661 | | Weight (grammes) | 380 | | ISBN13 | 9780521069663
(What's this?) | | Published in | Cambridge | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Series ISSN | 2 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Series title | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780521405386 | | Publication date | 31 Jul 2008 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | DEWEY | 850.92609031 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | Pages | 252 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | Volumes | 1 | |
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1. Problems of method; 2. History and invention in the dialogue; 3. The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: celebration and control; 4. The use of dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: commerce and courtesy; 5. Castiglione's Cortegiano: the dialogue as a drama of doubt; 6. The changing form of the Italian renaissance dialogue; 7. The theory and practice of the dialogue in counter-Reformation Italy; 8. From the 'girevole strada' to the straight and narrow path; 9. From the open dialogue to the closed book.
Review of the hardback: 'This book is of enormous value to Renaissance literary and social historians.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
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