Searching for Latini

Michael Kleine Information and Pricing 978-1-932559-85-9 (paperback, $20.00); 978-1-932559-86-6 (hardcover, $45.00); 978-1-932559-87-3 (PDF, $14.99) © 2006 by Parlor Press. 156 pages, with illustrations, index, and bibliography. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Listen to the "Searching for Latini" episode on "Arts and Letters," UALR Public Radio (11 May 2014). In Searching for Latini, Michael Kleine recounts the quest of a rhetorician and writing teacher to discover and celebrate the significance of a thirteenth-century rhetorician who has been excluded from American versions of rhetorical history—Brunetto Latini, the teacher of Dante. Kleine argues that Latini should be rescued from obscurity, not only because of the literary status of his student but also because of Latini’s promotion of Ciceronian rhetoric during the dawn of the Renaissance and the relevance of his work to contemporary teachers of writing. Kle