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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2013  
         
  Article:   LAURA CERETA’S ART OF PARADEIGMATA AND ERISTIC STYLE.

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  Abstract:  Laura Cereta’s Art of Paradeigmata and Eristic Style. Laura Cereta (1469–1499) was an eighteen-year old female author who fought for women’s education during the Italian Renaissance. Cereta’s Letter to Bibulous Sempronious. Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women reveals two powerful rhetorical strategies for marginalized authors: the argument from paradeigmata and the use of an eristic, wrangling prose style.

Keywords: Laura Cereta, paradeigmata, style, rhetorical analysis, Renaissance, Italy, eristic, author.

 
         
     
         
         
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