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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798029103321

Autore

Valier Agostino <1530-1606, >

Titolo

Augustini Valerii De rhetorica ecclesiastica libri III / / edited by Manuel López-Muñoz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-30796-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series, , 2212-3091 ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

251

Soggetti

Preaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Sigla -- Liber primus -- Liber secundus -- Liber tertius -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Preaching is more than just speaking in public. The persuasion of people and the theory underlying it are precedents of modern propaganda. In his Rhetorica Ecclesiastica , Agostino Valier (1531-1606) outlines what a Catholic preacher should know before he is allowed to deliver his sermons. Closely related to Cardinal Charles Borromeo's entourage and to the directions emanating from the Council of Trent, this treatise was considered to be one of the most influential ones back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and soon became a must for seminaries all over the world. After introducing Valier and the editorial approach he used, Manuel López-Muñoz offers a critical edition of the text aiming to recover the treatise and make it available to modern scholars.