In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the...
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In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice w
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-144) and index
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rediscovering Style ; Chapter One: A Rhetoric of Intimacy in Antiquity ; Chapter Two: A Rhetoric and Hermeneutics of Intimacy in Petrarch's Familiares ; Chapter Three: Familiaritas in Erasmian Rhetoric and Hermeneutics ; Chapter Four: Reading and Writing Intimately in Montaigne's Essais ; Conclusion: Rediscovering Individuality ; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index
