Vol. 41 No. 1 (2026)

Special Issue - Rhetorical Culture and Literary Practices in Italy (13th–17th Centuries). Editors: Cristiano Amendola (KU Leuven), Claudio Di Felice (Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara) & Emma Grootveld (Leiden University)

Introduction: Cristiano Amendola, Claudio Di Felice & Emma Grootveld

Articles: Forms and Structure. The ars dictaminis and the Rhetorical School of Southern Italy in the Thirteenth Century (Fulvio Delle Donne) • Between Rhetoric and Literature: The Dictamina of Pietro da Prezza (Martina Pavoni) • Style and Honor in Inf. V 107 (Gandolfo Cascio) • «Ornarse de laudata peritia». Epistolary Rhetoric and Socio-Stylistic Networks in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Italian (Cristiano Amendola) • The Rhetoric of Anti-Rhetoric. Pietro Aretino and the Myth of ‘Natural’ Writing (Paolo Procaccioli) • Towards a Mapping of the Rhetorical Continent through Bernardino Tomitano’s Quattro libri (1570) (Teodoro Katinis) • Rhetoric between the Useful and the Pleasant in Guidebooks to Italian Cities in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Harald Hendrix) • Experimentations with Rhetorics by Commedia dell’Arte Actors at the End of the 16th Century (Philiep Bossier) • Tesauro’s Il Cannocchiale aristotelico in the Twenty-First Century: In Light of the Recent Critical Edition (Angelo Lombardo & Teodoro Katinis)