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Since I am going to deal with so wide and complex a topic as ‘the significance of Philip Melanchthon’s rhetoric in the renaissance’, I would prefer to begin with an analysis of an example from the huge corpus of Melanchton’s writings, and to continue with a description of Melanchthon’s teaching practice at the University of Wittenberg (Saxony), where students from all over Europe came to listen to this pale man with his awkward voice.
Magis affectibus quam argutiis.
Erasmus, Methodus
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P. Mack, ‘Rudolph Agricola’s Reading of Literature’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. XLVIII (1985), pp. 23–41; M. van der Poel (ed. and trans.), Rudolf Agricola: Over Dialectica en humanisme (Baarn, 1991), Introduction , esp. p. 36.
See E. Norden, Die Antike Kunstprosa, vol. II (Darmstadt, 1971), pp. 492ff, 516ff on theories about the language of the New Testament.
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Meerhoff, K. (1994). The Significance of Philip Melanchthon’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance. In: Mack, P. (eds) Renaissance Rhetoric. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23144-7_3
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