Las vicisitudes de la carta amatoria en los tratados de retórica (ss. iv-xvi)

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the scarce and irregular presence of love letters in preceptive epistolography up to the beginning of the 16th century, and to analyse the different conceptions and approaches that classical rhetors, medieval dictatores, and humanist secretaries had on the epistolary love discourse. A diacronic study shows that their opinions on love letters written in their manuals do not always derive form rhetorical, technical, or stylistic considerations, as happens in other epistolary genres. On the contrary, quite often they adopt ludic and/or moral criteria that are alien to other rhetorical and textual practices.

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