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Rhetoric and Philosophical Discourse in Giordano Bruno's Italian Dialogues

Italian Council of Research, ILIESI-CNR, Rome, Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and for History of Ideas

Leen Spruit

Philology, Linguistics, and Anthropology, University of Rome La Sapienza

The Renaissance writers adapted the dialogue form to represent the culture they were creating, using it for numerous subjects: philosophy, ethics, politics, religion, the arts, the study of language, and literature. The dialogue was an appropriate form for works which are at once serious, ironical, and critical. Giordano Bruno's Italian dialogues are a case in point. This essay scrutinizes the structure of these works, with special attention to the role of the interlocutors in his rhetoric.

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