The Literature of Praise: A Study in Renaissance Aesthetics

Aeneas Aeneid aesthetic allegory amplification Aphthonius Aristotle Aristotle's Atkins attitude becomes blame Book Castelvetro century chapter Christian Cicero Cinthio claim classical commonplace considered Curtius Cyropaedia Cyrus deliberative delight echoing Elizabethan emphasizing English epic epideictic category epideictic literature epideictic oration epideictic writer episodes example exemplary exemplum fact Faerie Queene fiction figures flattery frequently Fulgentius function genre Greek Guarino da Verona Herennium Hermogenes hero heroic hymns Ibid idea illustrated imitation important interpretation Isocrates Jonson later laus Literary Criticism lyric medieval middle ages Milton Minturno moral nature neoplatonic noble oratory panegyric Patrizi philosophy pictura Plato Plutarch poem poet Poeta Poetics position praise present Prince Progymnasmata Puttenham quae Quintilian quotation Renaissance critics rhetoric rhetoricians Scaliger sense Sidney Sidney's Smith Spenser Spingarn style sunt Tasso technique term theory of poetry tion topics tradition tragedy treated truth Univ vice virtue Vittorino da Feltre vituperatio Wilson Xenophon