Searching for Latini.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: February 1, 2007 | Copyright information

193255985X

Searching for Latini.

Kleine, Michael.

Parlor Press

2006

141 pages

$20.00

Paperback

PQ4473

In this absorbing and very personal journey, Kleine (rhetoric and writing, U. of Arkansas, Little Rock) seeks Brunetto Latini, a proponent of Ciceronian rhetoric. Although Kleine finds Latini singularly relevant to contemporary teaching of writing, Latini is generally remembered, if he is at all, as the teacher of Dante. Kleine ...