J.L. Vives: Declamationes Sullanae I: Introductory Material, Declamations I and II. Edited and Translated with an Introduction (Selected Works of Juan Luis Vives, #2)

by Juan Luis Vives

Edward George (Editor)

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This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition, with introduction, notes, and indices, of the first two of Vives' five dramatic speeches on the theme of the abdication of the late Roman Republican dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. These speeches belong among Vives' experiments, in the years 1514-1523, with various imaginative genres, in which he was trying techniques of personal involvement of both himself and the reader in exploration of pressing issues, whether political, ethical, or esthetic.

The fundamental theme is the danger of ruling by fear. Sulla's two friends, Fundanus and Fonteius, counsel respectively against and for Sulla's retirement when Rome is full of vengeful survivors of his savage proscriptions.
  • ISBN10 9004087869
  • ISBN13 9789004087866
  • Publish Date 1 December 1989
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 September 2021
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill