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1Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and InterpretationImprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or categories for interpreting one's reading. The first chapter presents the questions. Later chapters use rhetorical theory to bring out the implications of, and suggest possible answers to, the questions: about occasion and audience (chapter 2), structure and disposition (3), narrative (4), argument …Read more
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32Review. From Poliziano to Machiavelli. Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. P GodmanThe Classical Review 49 (2): 545-547. 1999.
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Early modern ideas of imaginationIn Lodi Nauta & Detlev Pätzold (eds.), Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, Peeters. 2004.
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21Rudolph agricola's reading of literatureJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 (1): 23-41. 1985.
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16Returning to the libraryCommon Knowledge 18 (1): 17-21. 2012.This essay reflects on the different uses that its author has made of the Warburg Institute Library, first as a student, resident in the Library for two years, then as a visitor on day-long research trips from Warwick, and most recently as director of the Institute. After describing how the Library shelves can be accessed now electronically and discussing the arrangements of the opening sections of the fourth floor and the second floor, the essay concludes with comments on the future of the Libr…Read more
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16Montaigne’s wide and critical reading contributed enormously to his writing. that we know more about Montaigne’s reading than any other Renaissance author. This chapter begins by discussing the books Montaigne read and the comments he made on his reading. It argues that we should take seriously his advice to read in order to become wise, by discovering one’s own views, rather than to become learned, by summarizing the views of others. It describes Montaigne’s method of writing in reaction to his…Read more
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46Unpacking the warburg libraryCommon Knowledge 18 (1): 117-127. 2012.Against the backdrop of Walter Benjamin's famous essay, “Unpacking My Library”, this article, by the Librarian of the Warburg Institute, tells the story of the many times that the Warburg Library has been packed and unpacked. First it was the private collection of Aby Warburg, later a public institution, originally in Hamburg and then in London from 1933 to the present. This essay also explores the various ways in which books have been — and continue to be — acquired by the Warburg Library, incl…Read more
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5Laurentii Valle, "Repastinatio Dialectice et Philosophie", ed. by Gianni Zippel (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 236. 1984.
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Montaigne and Christian humanismIn Arie Johan Vanderjagt, A. A. MacDonald, Z. R. W. M. von Martels & Jan R. Veenstra (eds.), Christian Humanism: Essays in Honour of Arjo Vanderjagt, Brill. 2009.
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Vives's contributions to rhetoric and dialecticIn Charles Fantazzi (ed.), A Companion to Juan Luis Vives, Brill. 2008.
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21Agricola's use of the comparison between writing and the visual artsJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1): 169-179. 1992.
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