{"id":30,"date":"2025-08-12T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:42:11","slug":"chapter-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/chapter-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rhetoric in the Renaissance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rhetoric achieved its greatest prominence during the Renaissance. Humanists promoted rhetoric between 1300 and 1700. The attention paid to rhetoric by intellectual luminaries such as Petrarch, Pico, Vives, and Valla enhanced rhetoric\u2019s status substantially. Humanism revered newly retrieved classical sources. A revived classical rhetoric\u2014largely Ciceronian\u2014grounded a new way of thinking about culture and education, indeed, a new social order. The Renaissance orator\u2014the uomo universal<\/em>\u2014elevated the liberal arts and diligently pursued Cicero\u2019s model of uniting wisdom and eloquence. Petrarch advocated the vita activa<\/em>\u2014the active life of civic involvement. Rhetoric was the key to self-discovery, refinement, and effective government. New conversational forms of rhetoric were explored by innovative figures such as Madeleine de Scud\u00e9ry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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