The Learned Man Defended And Reformed
''L'huomo di lettere difeso ed emendato'' (Rome, 1645) by the Ferrarese Jesuit Daniello Bartoli (1608–1685) is a two-part treatise on the man of letters bringing together material he had assembled over twenty years since his entry in 1623 into the Society of Jesus as a brilliant student, a successful teacher of rhetoric and a celebrated preacher. His international literary success with this work led to his appointment in Rome as the official historiographer of the Society of Jesus and his monumental ''Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu'' (1650–1673). The entire patrimony of classical rhetoric was centered around the figure of the Ciceronian Orator, the ''vir bonus dicendi peritus'' of Quintilian as the ideal combination of moral values and eloquence. In Jesuit terms this dual ideal becomes '' santità e lettere'' for membership in the emerging Republic of Letters. Bartoli confidently asserts the validity of this model represented in his ''huomo di lettere''. In his introduction ...
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