..., respectively, but each a Gallican magistrate within the same parlementaire milieu. What kinds of relation between the living and the dead are fostered by these writers' uses of tense-forms to refer not only to sometimes long-dead producers of texts (in this case oratory and poetry) but also to a recently dead...

... that speaking and writing well (in French and English) should be the main objective of our endeavors, the benefits to everyone would be significant. Having been trained in oratory, effective rhetorical maneuvers, and persuasive writing, our students—eager to address the many social and political problems...

... subjectivity, Ronsard's response affirms his established reputation, his self-sameness as the nation's most gifted poet, by way of classical oratory. As the necessity of pleasing the prince and other noble patrons easily called into question the poet's moral credibility, in his Responce aux injures Ronsard...

... their oratory skills, and occasionally enjoying musical performances.38 A savvy promoter of the work of the academy and his own public image, Loredan encouraged the publication of an impressive illustrated catalogue of academy members entitled Le glorie degli Incogniti (1647). The entry for each member included...

.... de'Minori dell'Osservanza. Opera dilettevole et utile a tutti gli studiosi di lettere, et principalmente a gli oratori, predicatori e a'scholari che si affaticano di ascender alla dignita del dottorato. Tradotta di latino in lingua italiana da d. Theseo Mansueti da Urbino, presso Giovan Battista Bertoni...

... when we read what a writer contributed to the Madrid periodical, El Zurriago, in 1821: "La guerra civil es un don del cielo," he begins with dramatic recklessness. And then he goes on, recalling a talk in the cafe, site of inflamed extremist oratory that Galdos so effectively satirized in his first...

...: "Gli oratori ancor hanno avuto sempre tanta diversita tra se, che quasi ogni eta ha produtto ed apprezzato una sorte d'oratori peculiar di quel tempo" (148). Of the ancient poets, he says, "Molti diversi nello scrivere, sono pari nella laude" (148). This seems to echo Marcus Aper's conviction that "non...

... The son of Pierre Senault and a protege of Berulle, Senault was elected general of the Oratory in 1662 and was renowned for his preaching. In De I'Usage des passions, Senault criticizes the Stoic philosophers who sought a life removed from the passions. The Oratorian presents his work as a guide to help...

... successively the Congregation of Slaves of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Oratory of the Caballero de Gracia (in 1609), a second Congregacion del Oratorio (in 1610), and the third order of the Franciscans (in 1611). Tirso de Molina was a (raile mercedario, and Mira de Amescua was a priest who took his vows...