The history of rhetoric and the rhetoric of history / Nancy S. Struever.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1, Rhetoric as inquiry. The pertinence of rhetorical theory and practice for current Vichian scholarship ; Topics in history ; Subtilitas applicandi in rhetorical hermeneutics : Peirce's gloss and Kelly's example ; Dilthey's Hobbes and Cicero's rhetoric ; Political rhetoric and rhetorical politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) ; Alltäglichkeit, timefulness, in the Heideggerian program ; Historical priorities -- Pt. 2, The rhetoric of genres. Lorenzo Valla : humanist rhetoric and the critique of the Classical languages morality ; Fables of power ; Proverbial signs : formal strategies in Guicciardini's Ricordi ; Pasquier's Recherches de la France : the exemplarity of his medieval sources ; Shakespeare and rhetoric ; The conversable world : eighteenth-century transformations of the relation of rhetoric and truth ; Ethos and pathos in Ruskin's rhetoric, Florence and his aesthetic politics ; Rhetoric : time, memory, memoir -- Pt. 3, Rhetoric and the disciplines. Petrarch's Invective contra medicum : an early confrontation of rhetoric and medicine ; Rhetoric and medicine in Descarte's Passions de l'âme : the issue of intervention ; Lionardo Di Capoa's Parere (1681) : a legal opinion on the use of Aristotle in medicine ; Hobbes and Vico on law : a rhetorical gloss.