In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian RenaissanceA major new work in the history of rhetoric shows how humanistic interpretations of the Aeneid as praise & blame influenced later creative & scholarly evocations of the epic. |
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