Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Subject "rhetoric"

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Title: From the Passion of Self-Love to the Virtue of Self-Interest: The Republican Morals of the Brothers De La Court Author(s): WESTSTEIJN, Arthur Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The few studies on the political thought of Johan (1620-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), next to Spinoza the two most important Dutch republicans in the second half of the seventeenth century, have primarily focused ...
Title: Funeral Oratory at the Medici Court: the Representation of the First Grand Dukes Author(s): MENCHINI, Carmen Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Over 420 works on the Grand Dukes of the Medici family were written in the two centuries during which they ruled Florence and later all of Tuscany (1532-1737). Funeral orations and biographies can be considered the main ...

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