The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For

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This book is an ambitious critical investigation of the idea of eloquence as it informs classical and Renaissance thinking about literature.

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