1. Introduction and Origins 2. Diffusion and Reception of Classical Rhetoric 3. Italy 1390-1480 4. Agricola 5. Erasmus 6. Northern Europe 1519-1545: The Age of Melanchthon 7. Northern Europe 1545-1580: Ramus and company 8. Southern Europe in the Sixteenth Century 9. New Syntheses 1600-1620: Keckermann, Vossius and Caussin 10. Manuals of Tropes and Figures 11. Letter-writing manuals 12. Preaching manuals and Legal dialectics 13. Vernacular Rhetorics 14. . Conclusion: Renaissance Rhetoric Bibliography of Secondary Works Glossary of Rhetorical and Dialectical Terms
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