Defining the Genre of the Letter: Juan Luis Vives' <i>De Conscribendis Epistolis</i>
1969; Iter Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.33137/rr.v19i2.12372
ISSN2293-7374
Autores Tópico(s)Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
Resumodescribed the humanists as "the professional successors of the medieval Italian dictatures ,'' holding the same offices "either as teachers of the humani- ties in secondary schools or universities, or as secretaries to princes or cities."^The dictatores were practitioners of the ars dictaminis, a highly developed and rigidly formulated art of official letter-writing.That the letter remained central to the career of the humanist is proved by the scores of letter collections and handbooks on letter-writing published during the Renaissance period.^Thisliterature, which has been surprisingly little studied, deserves close attention as an example of the process by which classical art was absorbed into medieval Latin culture, for after the rediscovery of Cicero's letters by Francesco Petrarca and Coluccio Salutati in the fourteenth century, the humanists were the heirs not only of the ars dictaminis but also of the classical tradition of familiar letter-writing."^Formore than a hundred years, humanist handbooks attempted to reconcile these conflicting traditions, with results that were often confusing and inconsistent.Not until
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