The Art of Rhetoric: (Institutiones Oratoriae, 1711-1741)

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Rodopi, 1996 - 307 halaman
Gustavo Costa reviewing the Italian edition of Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae in New Vico Studies 9 (1991), has written that Rhetoric is the mainspring of an important trend of Vichian studies which initiated at the beginning of the twentieth century and had its manifestation in John D. Schaeffer's Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990), where Schaeffer aptly noted, summing up a long exegetic tradition, Vico was imbued with rhetoric and convinced of its centrality to Western civilization. Unfortunately, the editions of Vico's works published in English have not yet included the Institutiones Oratoriae, which more or less reflects the lectures on rhetoric given by Vico at the University of Naples, starting with the academic year 1699-1700 and going through 1739-1741. The manual on rhetoric was used in Italy up to the end of the nineteenth century and established the common curriculum in rhetoric to be followed in all Universities. This English edition offers a text of the Institutiones complete on the base of the four known extant manuscripts. It offers the marginal glosses made by Vico's students, a collection of Vico's phrases and explanations of terms collected by some of the students, a glossary of Latin words and rhetorical terms from the Latin text, and a wealth of information in the commentary. The Art of Rhetoric is the manual for everyone who wants to know what rhetoric is, how it was employed in the forum or the courts, how it could be learned from the classic orators, and how it can be used whenever we speak for convincing, praising or motivating.
 

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Chapter
9
Chapter
15
Chapter
21
The Exordium
69
The Ages of the Latin Language
111
On Conceits or Del Ben Parlare in Concetti
125
On Dignity
135
On the Genus of Tropes
137
On the Figures of Thought for Proving
175
On the Figures of Thought for Explication
179
On the Figures of Thought for Depicting Customs
183
On the Figures of Thought for Arousing the Spirits or On the Fires of Eloquence
185
On the Figures of Thought Concerning Arrangement
191
On Composition
193
On Joining
195
On the Period
197

On Metaphor
139
On Metonymy
141
On Synecdoche
143
On Irony
145
On the Moods of Tropes
147
On the Species of Tropes
149
On False Tropes
151
On Rhetorical Devices or Figures
153
On the Figures of WordsPrimarily Those which Consist in Terseness or Prolongation
155
On the Figures of Words Used in Repetition
157
On the Figures of WordsCollocation
159
On the Figures of Words Related to Delivery
163
On the Figures of WordsConnection
165
On the Figures of WordsVariation in Case Endings
167
On the Figures of WordsSimilarities in Sound
169
On the Figures of WordsHarmonics
171
On the Figures of Thought
173
On the Meter
201
On the Styles of Speaking
205
On Memory and Delivery
207
Examples from the Collectio Phrasium
209
Glosses
213
29
215
55
223
Commentary to Vicos Institutiones Oratoriae by Giuliano Crifò
229
Chapter 26
233
Chapter 30
257
Chapter 31
263
List of Sources Cited
289
Index of Proper Names
301
About the Author 309
About the Translators and Editors 311
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Giambattista Vico was born in Naples, Italy on June 23, 1668. He attended Jesuit schools and was self-taught. He was the professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was a philosopher of cultural history and law, who is considered a forerunner of cultural anthropology. His works include New Science, On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language, and Universal Law. He died on January 23, 1744.

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