The Renaissance Dialogue Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 uses of the 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 uses of the 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Renaissance DialogueLiterary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo, pp. 114 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992