Reviews Heinrich E Plett, Rhetoric uud Renaissance Culture. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 581pp. scholars. Most of us excel in one or two areas, but he has contributed valuable work in four different fields: historical and theoretical studies of came to general attention with a substantial monograph (based on his 1969 Bonn doctoral dissertation), Rhctorik dcr Affekte. Enylische Vkirkuuysdsthetik im of the importance given to moving the feelings in English Renaissance rhetoric, an understudied topic at that time, remains worth reading and might have become trulv influential had it appeared in English. Professor Plett had already published a student text, Einfidiruug iu die rhetorische Fextanalyse (Hamburg, 1971), which moved from rhetorical criticism into general linguistics, a mo\ e which he consolidated in Textwissenschaft und Textanalyse. Senuotik, Empiustik, Rhctorik (Heidelberg, 1975), subsequently translated into Rumanian (1983). Plett's latest work on rhetorical theory is Systematische Rhctorik: Konzcpt uud Analysen (Munich, 2000), which attempts a svstematization of rhetorical figures using modern linguistic terminology. In 1977 Plett produced the first of several volumes collecting essays bv himself and other scholars, Rhctorik. Kritischc Positional zum Stand dcr Forschuny (Munich). In consecutive vears he published complementary vol­ umes deriv ing from conferences held at the Zentrum fiir Rhetorik- und Renaissance-Studien that he had founded at the University of Essen, each containing 18 essavs in German, French, and English: Renaissance-Rhetorik. Renaissance Rhetoric (Berlin, New York, 1993; see my review in Renais­ sance Quarterly, 49 [1996]: 438-40), and Renaissance-Poetik. Renaissance poetics (Berlin, 1994). Another conference he organized produced a volume called Die Aktualitdt der Rhetorik (Munich, 1996). Having been so active in providing a forum for other scholars' work, it was only fitting that his colleagues re­ paid his good deeds with one of the best Rhetoric Festschriften of recent years, Rhetorica Movet: studies in historical and modern rhetoric in honor ofEieinrich F Plett, ed. P. L. Oesterreicher and T. O. Sloane (Leiden, 1999). Heinrich Plett's work has always been marked by a wide reading and the diligent use of primary and secondary sources, an important compoRhetorica , Vol. XXV, issue 4, pp. 435-448, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . G2007 by The international Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2007.25.4.435. 436 RHETORICA nent of scholarship which resulted in his producing a wide-ranging primary and secondary bibliography, Englische Rhetorik und Poetik 1479-1660. Eine systematische Bibliographie (Opladen, 1985; see my review, Wolfenbütteler Renais­ sance Mitteilungen, 13 [1989]: 75-80). A decade later Plett issued a corrected and enlarged edition, English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics. A Systematic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Leiden, 1995; see my review, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 5 [1998]: 260-65). Professor Plett describes the volume under review, Rhetoric and Renais­ sance Culture, as "the result of more than thirty years' work on Renaissance rhetoric" (p. vii). It is systematically organized (the chapters are labelled "AF "), beginning with an overview of the "Scope and Genres of Renaissance Rhetoric" (pp. 11-84). Then comes the longest chapter, “Poetica Rhetorica. Rhetorical Poetics in the Renaissance" (pp. 85-294), divided into the five stages of composition (inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, actio). The survey widens to take in rhetoric's relationship with the visual arts and with music, in a chapter awkwardly titled "Intermedial Rhetoric" (pp. 295-412). Chap­ ter D, “Poeta Orator: Shakespeare as Orator Poet" (pp. 413-498) consists of five parts, four of which the author has translated from essays published in German between 1981 and 1995. Chapter E, "Iconography of Rhetoric and Eloquence" (pp. 499-552), is profusely illustrated (the volume as a whole con­ tains 94 plates), and is followed by two detailed indices, of names and sub­ jects. The volume is handsomely designed and printed, with a commendably high degree of accuracy. Although the over-all structure is clear, there is an unfortunate degree of overlapping between sections, and the same quotations reappear several times over, often with the...

98 RHETORICA è vero maestro di retorica non solo per il linguaggio ma anche per la capacité dialettica ed argomentativa, per l'espressione dei caratteri e dei sentimenti. Riguardo alie esemplificazioni tratte dai tragici e occorrenti nei trattati di retorica, all'occasionalité dell'uso técnico di Eschilo risponde un buon impiego di citazioni sofoclee ed una quantité notevole di esempi tratti da Euripide. Gli esempi attinti dalle opere sofoclee, in particolare YElettra, ricorrono in tutte le fasi della strutturazione del discorso: inventio, dispositio ed elocutio. Le tragédie euripidee si rivelano invece particolarmente utili non solo nella fase di strutturazione del discorso ma anche in quella di elaborazione dell'argomentazione e nelLepilogo. I trattati di retorica portano un contributo limitato alia nostra conoscenza delle tragédie greche. Le scuole di retorica tendevano ad operare scelte fondate generalmente su opere giunteci integre, frutto di una selezione in qualche modo giá effettuata. L'autrice dimostra anche che i retori si servivano spesso di citazioni di seconda mano delle tragédie o si affidavano alia memoria. Per quanto riguarda Euripide poi una notevole influenza sulla quantité di citazioni di brevi versi dovette esercitare il précoce patrimonio proverbiale gnómico. II volume è completato dai "Riferimenti bibliografici,,/ i quali offrono non solo le indicazioni delle edizioni canoniche dei singoli autori citati ma anche una ampia e ragionata selezione della principale bibliografía sull'argomento; da un "Indice dei passi retorici citati"; da uno delle citazioni dei tragici e da un altro selettivo delle "Locuzioni tecniche". L'indagine della Castelli si segnala per la prospettiva nuova nella quale vengono esaminati i rapporti tra retorica e tragedia. Viene messo in evidenza il ruolo dei poeti tragici nella prassi didattica e la loro presenza effettiva nei trattati di retorica.. L'opera, al di lé del contributo scientifico che offre, suscita grande interesse anche nel lettore non técnico; da essa egli trae il giusto apprezzamento dell'apporto della poesía alla realtà della comunicazione. Non vuoto esercizio letterario ma strumento efficace di persuasione, la retorica trova i suoi strumenti persuasivi anche attraverso la poesía. Una buona segnalazione per i maestri della comunicazione del terzo Millennio. Giuseppina Matino Università Federico II, Napoli Richard Rex ed., A Reformation Rhetoric: Thomas Swynnerton's The Tropes and Figures of Scripture Edited by Richard Rex; Renaissance Texts from Manuscript, no. 1 (RTM Publications, PO Box 221, Cam­ bridge CB1 2XD, 1999) ix + 190 pp. It is a pleasure to welcome this new series, "Renaissance Texts from Manuscript , the brainchild of Jeremy Maule. He conceived it, brought Reviews 99 together a lively team of younger scholars, each with a text to edit, and spent much time discussing textual and other problems. His absurdlv premature death robbed us of one of the leading manuscript scholars of his generation, and it is a small consolation to have this series outlive him, produced to the high standards of palaeographical accuracy and typographical elegance that he would have striven for. It is a special pleasure to welcome the first volume, an edition of a hith­ erto unknown English rhetoric text. Such discoveries do not occur more than once or twice a century. This text, which exists in one manuscript only in the Public Record Office, Rew, was virtuallv unknown until Joseph Block cited it in an essay on "Thomas CromwelEs Patronage of Preaching" (Six­ teenth Century Journal, 8, 1977: 37-50). It is now edited by Richard Rex, of Queens' College Cambridge, a Reformation historian who has already pub­ lished some important work (The Theologx/ of John Fisher (Cambridge, 1991); Henry VIII and the English Reformation (Basingstoke, 1993); and several sub­ stantial essays). Dr. Rex is following in the footsteps of other historians who have made substantial contributions to the history of rhetoric, such as John O. Ward, John Monfasani, and Quentin Skinner. He provides a remarkably thorough and well-documented introduction, which is as long as the text itself, and in some respects more stimulating. He summarizes the little that is known about Swvnnerton, who got into trouble with the ecclesiastical authorities on several occasions, wrote a number of other works which have disappeared, and died in 1554. One of the most striking facts about...

Research Article| May 01 1999 De Pictura Veterum Libri Tres (Roterodami 1694): Edition, traduction et commentaire du livre I Franciscus Junius, De Pictura Veterum Libri Tres (Roterodami 1694): Edition, traduction et commentaire du livre I, par Colette Nativel (Genève: Librairie Droz, 1996) pp. 725; ill. Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Centre for Renaissance Studies, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, CH - 8092, Zürich, Switzeriand Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1999) 17 (2): 220–222. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1999.17.2.220 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Vickers; De Pictura Veterum Libri Tres (Roterodami 1694): Edition, traduction et commentaire du livre I. Rhetorica 1 May 1999; 17 (2): 220–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1999.17.2.220 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search Copyright 1999, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1999 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

220 RHETORICA la religión. El estudio ofrece un minucioso análisis de las obras más importantes de la época, en el que queda de manifiesto la notable influencia del ramismo en Inglaterra. Por último, se realiza una reflexión sobre el supuesto carácter ramista de la Methodica adumbratio Ethicae, de William Temple (1555—1627), mostrando que el autor inglés, influido por la intransigencia metodológica del ramismo, desarrolla un esquema sobre la ética que responde a las instancias de claridad y concisión típicas de la metodología ramista, por lo que se separa en mayor medida que sus contemporáneos del modelo aristotélico, pero no llega a desarrollar plenamente su intento de realizar una ética ramista alejada del pensamiento tradicional. Estamos ante un trabajo interesante, en definitiva, que explica con claridad el papel que tuvo el ramismo en el desarrollo de la cultura de la sociedad burguesa moderna. En este sentido, y pesar de su fugacidad, las teorías de Ramus representan el reflejo de una época de transición entre el antiguo feudalismo y el naciente sistema capitalista. A mi modo de ver, el mérito del trabajo no sólo reside en ayudar a esclarecer las particularidades del método ramista, sino también en relacionar la aparición y evolución del ramismo con las circunstancias históricas y sociales que lo determinan, así como en ofrecer un detallado panorama del pensamiento ramista en Inglaterra. ALFONSO MARTÍN JIMÉNEZ Universidad de Valladolid Franciscus Junius, De Pictura Veterum Libri Très (Roterodami 1694): Edition, traduction et commentaire du livre I, par Colette Nativel (Genève: Librairie Droz, 1996) pp. 725; ill. Franciscus Junius (1571-1677), son of the distinguished Protestant theologian Franciscus Junius (1545-1602), has been fortunate in recent years. His De Pictura veterum, first published in 1637, was given a sumptuous and expensive edition ($240.00) in 1991 for the University of California Press by Keith Aldrich, Reviews 221 Philipp Fehl, and Raina Fehl. Their two handsomely produced volumes (418 and 611 pages, respectively) included Junius's slightly revised text of The Painting of the Ancients in his own English translation (1638), together with the Catalogus Architectorum and other artificers from the second, expanded Latin edition (1694) in Aldrich's translation. With ample notes and extensive indices, this editorial trio set standards which one imagined could hardly be excelled. But now Colette Nativel has started to produce an even more elaborate edition. Her first volume, running to over 700 pages, is devoted to Book One, which constitutes about a quarter of Junius's text. She gives a brief introduction (8 pages), situating De pictura veterum in the tradition of classical rhetoric: then follows a detailed and lavishly illustrated biography of Junius (61 pages), and an illuminating account the book's evolution and reception (24 pages). The text itself is presented on facing pages, French and Latin (292 pages), with an extraordinary amount of annotation. For the Latin text notes indicate the hundreds of additional passages (many of them quotations from classical treatises) added in the 1694 edition. The translation pages add notes identifying all of Junius's quotations, with extensive quotations in Greek and Latin. One can only admire both the editor's diligence and the publisher's devotion to scholarly standards in producing such a meticulous and costly-to-print apparatus. As if this were not enough, Dr. Nativel then adds a commentary section, running to 183 closely-printed pages, an extensive bibliography (96 pages), and Index locorum and an Index nominum. All students of rhetoric and art theory are deeply indebted to the editor for this magnificent edition, the introduction concisely shows just how "cet ars pingendi puise sa pensée dans Pars dicendi" (p.15), drawing on the richness of ancient treatises on rhetoric just at those points where analogies were made between discourse and image: "C'est un detour de comparaisons où les arts visuels servent de référents aux arts de la parole que Junius trouve ses théories picturales. Il élabore sa réflexion suivant un double procès: tantôt, il se contente d'utiliser la comparaison qu il rencontre...

Research Article| August 01 1995 Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, Herausgegeben von Gert Ueding. Redaktion: Gregor Kalivoda, Franz-Hubert Robling (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992), Band 1 (A-Bib) VIII + 796 Seiten. Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Centre for Renaissance Studies, ETH Zenfrum, Rämisfrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich, Die Schweiz. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1995) 13 (3): 345–358. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1995.13.3.345 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Vickers; Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik,. Rhetorica 1 August 1995; 13 (3): 345–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1995.13.3.345 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search Copyright 1995, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1995 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| February 01 1995 The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style George Barth, The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992), viii + 190 pp. Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Cenfre for Renaissance Studies, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich, Die Schweiz. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1995) 13 (1): 98–101. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1995.13.1.98 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Vickers; The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style. Rhetorica 1 February 1995; 13 (1): 98–101. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1995.13.1.98 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1995, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1995 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| February 01 1988 The Atrophy of Modern Rhetoric, Vico to De Man Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Centre for Renaissance Stadies, ETH-Zentrum, Ramistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zurich. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1988) 6 (1): 21–56. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1988.6.1.21 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Vickers; The Atrophy of Modern Rhetoric, Vico to De Man. Rhetorica 1 February 1988; 6 (1): 21–56. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1988.6.1.21 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1988, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1988 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| May 01 1984 Figures of rhetoric/Figures of music? Brian Vickers Brian Vickers ETH-Zentrum, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1984) 2 (1): 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1984.2.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Vickers; Figures of rhetoric/Figures of music?. Rhetorica 1 May 1984; 2 (1): 1–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1984.2.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1984, The International Society for The History of Rhetoric1984 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.