JESUIT RHETORIC BIBLIOGRAPHY


Primary Texts (Pre-1800)

Cipriano Suárez. De arte rhetorica (1562)

Francis Borgia.  De ratione concionandi (1579)

Manuale Rhetorum (1588)

Ludovico Carbone. De arte dicendi (1589)

_____. De oratoria et dialectica inventione (1589)

_____. Divinus orator (1595)

Antonio Possevino. Bibiotheca Selecta (1593)

“Rules for the Professor of Rhetoric.” Ratio Studiorum. (1599)

Bernardino de Llanos. Illustrium Auctorum Collectanea (1604)

Carlos Reggio. Orator Christianus (1612)

Giulio Mazarini.  Pratica breve del predicare (1615)

Jose de Arriaga. Rhetoris Christiani (1619)

Nicolas Caussin. De eloquentiae sacrae et humanae parallela (1619)

_____. La cour sainte (1634)

P. Louis de Cressolles. Vacationes Autumnales (1620)

Domingo Velázquez. Breve Instruccion y Suma Rethórica de Predicadores (1625)

Famiano Strada. Eloquentia bipartite (1638)

Michael Radau. Orator extemporaneus (1640)

Tomás González. De Arte Rhetorica (1646)

François Pomey. Candidatus rhetoricae (1659)

Bohuslav Balbin z Orličné. Quaesita oratoria (1677)

Claude Buffier. Traité de l’éloquence (1728)

Secondary Texts

Abbott, Don Paul. Rhetoric in the New World: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in Colonial Spanish America. U of South Carolina P, 1996.

_____. “Aztecs and Orators: Rhetoric in New Spain.” Texte: Revue de Critique et de Théorie Littéraire 8/9 (1989): 353-65.

Bayley, Peter. French Pulpit Oratory, 1598-1650: A Study in Themes and Styles, with a Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980.

Blanchard, Jean-Vincent. L'optique du discours au XVIIe siècle : de la rhètorique des
jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal). Saint-Nicolas, Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005.

Boriaud, Jean-Yves. “‘L’Orator Christianus’: D’apres les traités de rhétorique jésuites de la 1re moitié du XVIIe siècle.” Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé 12 (June 1988): 162-72.

Boswell, Grant. "Letter Writing among the Jesuits: Antonio Possevino's Advice in the
Bibliotheca Selecta (1593)." Huntington Library Quarterly 66 (2003): 247-62

Campbell, Stephen F. “Nicolas Caussin’s ‘Spirituality of Communication’: A Meeting of Divine and Human Speech.” Renaissance Quarterly 46 (Spring 1993): 44-70.

Conley, Thomas M. “Jesuit Rhetorics” and “Nicolas Caussin.” In Rhetoric in the European Tradition. Longman, 1990. 152-57 and 182-83.

Conte, Sophie, ed. Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à l'époque de Louis XIII ; actes du colloque de Troyes (16-17 septembre 2004). Berlin-Hamburg-Münster: LIT Verlag, 2007.

Dainville, Francois de. “L’evolution de l’enseignement de la rhétorique au dix-septième siècle.” In L'Education des Jésuites : XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Paris : Editions de Minuit, 1978. 187-208.

Donnelly, Francis Patrick. Principles of Jesuit education in practice. P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1934.

Duminuco, Vincent, ed. The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum of 1599: 400th Anniversary Perspectives. Fordham UP, 2000.

Flynn, Lawrence J. “The De Arte Rhetorica of Cyprian Soarez, S.J.,” QJS 42 (1956): 367-74.

_____. “Sources and Influence of Soarez’ De Arte Rhetorica.” QJS 43 (1957): 257-65.

Fothergill-Payne, Louise. "The Jesuits as Masters of Rhetoric and Drama." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 10 (Spring 1986): 375-87.

Fumaroli, Marc. L'Age de l'éloquence : rhétorique et "res literaria" de la Renaissance au seuil de l'époque classique . Paris: Champion, 1980.

_____. “Baroque et classicisme: L’Imago Primi Saeculi Societatis Jesu (1640) et ses adversaries.” In his L’école du silence: Le sentiment des images au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 343-65.

_____. “Le corps éloquent: Une somme d’actio et pronuntiato rhetorica au XVIIe siècle: Les Vacationes Autumnales du P. Louis de Cressolles (1620).” XVIIe Siècle 33 (1981): 237-64.

_____. “Définition et description: Scholastique et rhétorique chez les jésuites des XVId et XVIIe siècles.” In Travaux de Linguistique et de Literature 18 (1980):37-48.

_____. “The Fertility and Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case.” In O’Malley, The Jesuits. 90-106.

Gross, Daniel M. “Caussin’s Passion and the New History of Rhetoric.” Rhetorica 21 (Spring 2003): 89-112.

Jones, Matthew Laurence. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Lang, R. “The Teaching of Rhetoric in French Jesuit Colleges: 1556-1762.” Speech Monographs 19 (1952): 286-98.

Levy, Evonne Anita. Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. University of California Press, 2004.

Maryks, Robert A.. Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabalism. Ashgate, 2008.

Meersman, Roger. “Père René Rapin’s Eloquence des Belles-Lettres.” Speech Monographs 38 (1971): 290-301.

Moss, Jean Dietz. “The Rhetoric Course at the Collegio Romano in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth Century.” Rhetorica 4 (Spring 1986): 137-51.

_____. “Sacred Rhetoric and Appeals to the Passions: A Northern Italian View.” In Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History. Ed. Joseph Marino and Melinda Schlitt. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000. 375-400.

_____, and William A. Wallace. Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo. Catholic U of America P, 2003.

O’Malley, John. The First Jesuits. Harvard UP, 1993.

_____. “The Jesuit Eduational Enterprise in Historical Perspective.” In Jesuit Higher Education: Essays on an American Tradition of Excellence, ed. Rolando F. Bonachea. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1989. 10-25.

_____. Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, ca. 1450-1521. Duke UP, 1979.

O’Malley, John W., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy, eds. The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773. University of Toronto Press, 1999.

O'Malley, John W. , Johann Bernhard Staudt, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and Steven J. Harris, eds. The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773. U of Toronto P, 2006.

Padberg, John W. Colleges in Controversy: The Jesuit Schools in France from Revival to Suppression, 1815-1880. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969.

Shuger, Debora K. Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

Stein, Susan Margaret. "Integrating a pedagogy of writing with personal formation in the Jesuit tradition" (January 1, 1995). ETD collection for University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Paper AAI9536626. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9536626

Wilkins, Kathleen S. A Study of the Works of Claude Buffier. Geneva: Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1969.