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MOREANA
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 208-219Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3366/more.2023.0152
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Thomas More; Antonio Bonvisi (Buonvisi); letter to Bonvisi specialIntscript rhetoric; precepts; letters/epistles; friendship; Tower works/writings; Erasmus's De Conscribendis Epistolis
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This essay examines More's 1535 letter to Antonio Bonvisi. It compares the letter, as a whole and in its salutation and valediction, with the humanist epistolary conventions expressed by Erasmus and finds that More often, but not always, disregards Erasmian precepts. The essay argues that More's rhetorical choices deepen our understanding of his enactment of friendship in the letter and of More's self-understanding near the end of his life.
The essay examines More's 1535 letter to Antonio Bonvisi. It compares the epistle, as a whole and in its salutation and valediction, with the humanist epistolary conventions expressed by Erasmus and discovers that More often, but not always, ignores Erasmian precepts. The essay argues that More's rhetorical choices deepen our understanding of his enactment of friendship in the letter and of More's self-understanding near the end of his life.
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