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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2011
      03 December 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511895715
      9780521069663
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895715
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (2)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (2)
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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.

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    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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