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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 | 0521405386 | | Pages | 250 | | ISBN13 | 9780521405386
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 495 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Series editor | Orgel, Stephen (Stanford University, California), Orgel, Stephen (Stanford University, California), | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture | | Publication date | 03 Dec 1992 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | PQ4183.D5 C68 1992 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 850.92609031 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Preface | | | | 1 | | Problems of method | | 1 | | 2 | | History and invention in the dialogue | | 9 | | 3 | | The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: celebration and control | | 22 | | 4 | | The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: commerce and courtesy | | 34 | | 5 | | Castiglione's Cortegiano: the dialogue as a drama of doubt | | 47 | | 6 | | The changing form of the Italian Renaissance dialogue | | 61 | | 7 | | The theory and practice of the dialogue in Counter-Reformation Italy | | 70 | | 8 | | From the 'girevole strada' to the straight and narrow path | | 84 | | 9 | | From the open dialogue to the closed book | | 99 | | | | Notes | | 114 | | | | Bibliography | | 209 | | | | Index | | 231 |
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