The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo

Virginia Cox

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511895715

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.

Review of the hardback:‘This book is of enormous value to Renaissance literary and social historians.’

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

1 - Problems of method
pp 1-8

2 - History and invention in the dialogue
pp 9-21

3 - The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: celebration and control
pp 22-33

4 - The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: commerce and courtesy
pp 34-46

5 - Castiglione's Cortegiano: the dialogue as a drama of doubt
pp 47-60

6 - The changing form of the Italian Renaissance dialogue
pp 61-69

7 - The theory and practice of the dialogue in Counter-Reformation Italy
pp 70-83

8 - From the ‘girevole strada’ to the straight and narrow path
pp 84-98

9 - From the open dialogue to the closed book
pp 99-113

Notes
pp 114-208

Bibliography
pp 209-230

Index
pp 231-236

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