Translation and the rediscovery of rhetoric /
Bolduc, Michelle,author.
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,publisher.
"This study argues that translation is the means by which rhetoric, as the art of reasoning, becomes a part of a lineage of--and a resource for--an ethics of civic discourse. At its heart is the thirteenth-century writer, translator, and notary Brunetto Latini, whose translation of Cicero's De inventione will plant the seeds for the twentieth-century renewal of rhetoric as an art of persuasion. Moving from Classical Latin and medieval Romance languages to modern French, this work posits a diachronic dialogue, showing how translation--as practice and as theory, via the medieval topos of translatio--serves as the vehicle for the transfer of rhetoric as an art of argumentation and persuasion from Classical Greece and Rome to modern Paris and Brussels by way of medieval France and Italy."--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medieval translatio -- Cicero: rhetoric and translation for the Roman Republic -- Bringing Ciceronian rhetoric to the Florentine comune: Brunetto Latini's translation of Cicero -- The modern translation of Latini's Ciceronian rhetoric: Jean Paulhan's reinvention of rhetoric -- The new rhetoric project's translatio of rhetoric.
"This study argues that translation is the means by which rhetoric, as the art of reasoning, becomes a part of a lineage of--and a resource for--an ethics of civic discourse. At its heart is the thirteenth-century writer, translator, and notary Brunetto Latini, whose translation of Cicero's De inventione will plant the seeds for the twentieth-century renewal of rhetoric as an art of persuasion. Moving from Classical Latin and medieval Romance languages to modern French, this work posits a diachronic dialogue, showing how translation--as practice and as theory, via the medieval topos of translatio--serves as the vehicle for the transfer of rhetoric as an art of argumentation and persuasion from Classical Greece and Rome to modern Paris and Brussels by way of medieval France and Italy."--
Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Paulhan, Jean, 1884-1968
Perelman, Chaïm
Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie
Rhetoric
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Rhetoric
Translating and interpreting
Literature, Medieval
Transmission of texts.