RHETORIC IN RENAISSANCE PERIOD

Question 1

The Renaissance Period focused on:

Answer 1

Language

Question 2

What did George of Trebizond do?

Answer 2

George collected the remaining burnt books (by the Pagans) and reunified them to various genres and methods of rhetoric.

Question 3

What did Lorenzo Valla do?

Answer 3

Attacks scholasticism, which is the authoritarian approach to education.

Question 4

What did Desiderius Erasmus do?

Answer 4

Abundance of Style; 200 ways of saying the same thing; rewriting

Question 5

Who is Christine Di Pisan?

Answer 5

First professional woman writer of poetry and prose.

Question 6

Who is Francesco Petrarca?

Answer 6

Revived classical rhetoric; follows Cicero’s – Speech can have no dignity unless the soul has dignity.

Question 7

What does Pico Della Mirandola believe in?

Answer 7

Believes that both magic and rhetoric can alter reality.

Question 8

What does The Great Debate: Verba vs Res means?

Answer 8

Verba - words in which the matter is advanced
Res - substance

Question 9

What is Viva Activa?

Answer 9

Debt on the nation that gave you the language (citizenship).

Question 10

There are 4 humanist studies in Italian Humanism. What are they?

Answer 10

1. Rhetoric
2. Poetic
3. Ethics
4. Politics

Question 11

What is Uomo Universale about?

Answer 11

Tackles perfectus oratore; fulfilling his idea on moral, literary, terms