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Elyot, Castiglione, and the problem of style (1996)

Elyot, Castiglione, and the problem of style (1996)

Literary Fiction

Teresa Kennedy

Year: 1996
Authors: Teresa Kennedy
Print type: BOOK

Description:

This study of early vernacular humanism compares the stylistic-methods of two important prose writers, Sir Thomas Elyot and Baldassare Castiglione. Analysis of diction, syntax, and larger issues of cultural history explains how each of these stylists incorporated the classical model into his vernacular tradition.