History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 - Mack, Peter (Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London a Professor of English, University of Warwick)

This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm.