On Reading the Rhetoric of the Renaissance Letter

Henderson, Judith Rice

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“…Furthermore, as Christus Medicus, He was seen as curing the spiritual and physical sicknesses of the population. 50 Giovanni Pagliuolo has suggested that these sores or wounds in Vignali's painting may refer to the effects of typhus, which had afflicted Florence in these years (1620-23), and during which over 3,000 people died in the city. 51 Apart from the congruence of the dates of the commission and of the epidemic, Pagliuolo has suggested that Christ's wounds reflect a rash, one of the main symptoms of this disease.…”

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Representing Infirmity in Early Modern Florence

Henderson¹

2020

Representing Infirmity

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Representing Infirmity in Early Modern Florence

Henderson¹

2020

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“…In writing to the queen for clemency, she structured her writing according to epistolary formalities, closely following the conventional rhetorical layout of a letter of petition, which consisted of five main parts: Exordium (introduction), Narratio or Propositio (declaration of the substance of the letter), Confirmatio (amplification), Confutatio (refutation of objections) and Peroratio (conclusion). 79 The letter begins with a highly formal salutation and exordium begging favour from the monarch, 'Moste humblie, with teares, beseacheth your highnes your Ma[jesti] es moste desolate poore subiect, Margaret Neuill one of the daughters of thinfortunate late Erle of Westmerland, to take Princelie pittie vpon my lamentable estate'. The letter then provides a background narration (narratio) of her suit: she confesses that since the death of her mother she received no part of the allowance that the queen bestowed upon her, and was forced to receive 'relefe of papists, by whose subtiltie, my needie simplicitie was allured from myne obedience and loyaltie, to their superstition and errors'.…”

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Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth‐century England

Daybell

2009

Renaissance Studies

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This article examines the usefulness of letters as evidence for reconstructing issues of conscience faced by early modern women. It considers the degree to which women's letters reveal the internal anatomy of conscience -in the sense of an inner intellectual faculty that judged the moral quality of past action and guided future action -and the nature of the process of self-examination women went through as they wrestled with the dilemmas posed by sixteenthcentury religious changes in particular. How far and in what ways did the letter develop as a 'private' confessional form? While recent studies have usefully moved away from viewing early modern casuistry as a Machiavellian science of dissembling towards a 'rigorous intellectual method', much attention focuses on these inward mechanics of conscience, arguably less on public actions and observances, and the construction of public personas, especially those of outward conformity. 1 This article, therefore, also investigates the ways in which women negotiated conscience in epistolary exchanges with state officials in letters of equivocation or dissimulation. A central issue for both categories of letter is the extent to which the epistolary medium is in actual fact capable of reflecting inner conscience. Certainly contemporary authors assumed that letters provided unrivalled access to the personality, moral character and inner spiritual world of a writer. Indeed, Miles Coverdale in his 1564 edition of the letters of imprisoned martyrs claimed that one could learn from men's epistles 'what the verye thoughts of their hartes were'. 2 To modern eyes as well, letters appear to represent private outpourings. 3 Moreover, letterwriting has traditionally been viewed as a genre that facilitated introspection, an interior self-consciousness among letter-writers. To Michel Foucault the I am grateful to

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“…On Petrarch's editing and organization of his letter collections, see Velli;Bernardo, 1960;Bernardo, 1958. In this, as in many other areas of scholarship, the next two generations of humanists followed Petrarch's lead; Najemy, 1993, 25-31. For a call to a generational approach to humanist intellectual history, see Celenza, 2018. On continuing indebtedness to the ars dictaminis in humanist guides to letter-writing, see Henderson, 1993. instead to literary otium. 19 Poggio turns a minor thread of Cicero's lettersthe consul's desire to form a library-into the principal focus of the correspondence.…”

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Letters to the Editor: Friendship and Self-Fashioning in a Fifteenth-Century Humanist Epistolary Collection

McCahill

2023

Renaiss. Q.

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This article explores Poggio Bracciolini's letters to Niccolò Niccoli from a variety of perspectives: it looks at what imitation meant for Poggio, examines the letters’ commentary on the manuscript culture of the early Quattrocento, discusses Poggio's efforts to craft a personal voice, and traces the interplay of optimism and pessimism in the letters, an interplay common to humanist texts of this period. By bringing together these different perspectives, the article articulates the range of ways in which one scholar used his epistolary collection to shape his own persona, connect himself to Ciceronian precedents, and create norms and expectations for a developing intellectual community.

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On Reading the Rhetoric of the Renaissance Letter

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Representing Infirmity in Early Modern Florence

Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth‐century England

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