Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativo

This contribution presents an analysis of the short treatise De genere demonstrativo by the Paduan rhetorician and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500–1588), a highly relevant figure of the Italian Cinquecento. The main point of Speroni’s treatise is to defend demonstrative rhetoric against its detra...

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Main Author: Teodoro Katinis
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Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego 2025-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/flit/article/view/18319
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description This contribution presents an analysis of the short treatise De genere demonstrativo by the Paduan rhetorician and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500–1588), a highly relevant figure of the Italian Cinquecento. The main point of Speroni’s treatise is to defend demonstrative rhetoric against its detractors and to give it a larger space than Aristotle did in his Art of Rhetoric. I focus on the dialogue of the text with the rhetorical tradition and on the original aspects of Speroni’s argumentation in favor of praise, with particular attention to the technique of amplification. In conducting this examination, I highlight some of the rhetorical strategies that Speroni himself applies in praising praise.    
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spelling doaj-art-7547a5d810f3473ba380b04604f8d3212025-08-20T02:02:58ZengWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ŚląskiegoFabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica2658-185X2025-06-0110.31261/FLPI.2025.09.08Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativoTeodoro Katinis0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2425-0250Universiteit Gent This contribution presents an analysis of the short treatise De genere demonstrativo by the Paduan rhetorician and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500–1588), a highly relevant figure of the Italian Cinquecento. The main point of Speroni’s treatise is to defend demonstrative rhetoric against its detractors and to give it a larger space than Aristotle did in his Art of Rhetoric. I focus on the dialogue of the text with the rhetorical tradition and on the original aspects of Speroni’s argumentation in favor of praise, with particular attention to the technique of amplification. In conducting this examination, I highlight some of the rhetorical strategies that Speroni himself applies in praising praise.     https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/flit/article/view/18319Sperone Speroniretorica epiditticaAristoteleamplificazione
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title Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativo
title_full Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativo
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title_full_unstemmed Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativo
title_short Lodare la lode. Il trattatello di Speroni sul genere dimostrativo
title_sort lodare la lode il trattatello di speroni sul genere dimostrativo
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