Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo

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This book examines the teaching and practice of the twin arts of argumentation-rhetoric and dialectic-in the time of Galileo. Galileo was an ardent controversialist on behalf of his astronomical theories, yet many today are unacquainted with the kinds of argument that became a focal point in his famous trial. In this insightful work, Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace combine their vast knowledge of rhetoric, history, and philosophy to explain the background of the dispute between science and religion. The authors present an engaging discussion of the prevailing modes of rhetorical and scientific arguments in Northern Italy during the Renaissance. They display primary texts on the arts of rhetoric and dialectic by authors whose thought was known to Galileo. Six sets of translations from the published works of two scholars, Ludovico Carbone and Antonio Riccobono, make up the major part of the book. The works examined are Carbone's Introduction to Logic, Table of Rhetoric of Cyprian Soarez, Art of Speaking, On Oratorical and Dialectical Invention, and The Divine Orator, and Riccobono's Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric. Never before have these works been available in English. Moss and
 

Contents

Galileo and Argumentation3
3
Traditional Rhetoric and Dialectic
12
Rhetoric and Dialectic Reappraised
22
Introduction
45
Translated Excerpts58
58
Topics of persons before and at birth92
92
Goods in life those granted by nature and acquired by education100
100
Goods or virtues given supernaturally by God
104
its nature and causes
182
its nature and causes
184
their natures causes and effects
186
Introduction and Preface
191
its nature causes and effects
194
its nature causes and effects
196
its nature causes and effects
202
its nature causes and effects
205

Moral and cognitive virtues their nature and division
113
Introduction
115
Prudence its divisions and contraries116
116
Justice its divisions and contraries
118
Courage its divisions and contraries
124
Temperance its divisions and contraries
127
Translation of Carbones Tables of Soarezs Rhetoric entire
130
Other topics of persons taken from their kind of life their deeds and goods of body and fortune
133
Topics from the true and their division
141
Topics from the honorable good and their division
147
Topics from useful and pleasurable goods and their division155
155
Topics from the common good and from possible and readily accessible evil
162
The causes of human actions166
166
Human affections in general
172
its nature causes and effects
178
Those affected by anger and gentleness
211
Shame and modesty
215
Introduction Dedication and Argument
219
Indignation envy and jealousy223
223
Characters of different ages228
228
Translation of Riccobonos Essays on Aristotles Rhetoric
235
its nature those injuring and those injured
237
Introduction Table of Contents and Preface
301
Translation of Book One entire
310
Translation of Excerpts from Books Three and Five
350
Introduction Table of Contents Dedication and Preface
379
Translation of Excerpts from Books One Two Four and Five
394
Bibliography425
425
Index of Names433
433
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