El género del "Isagogicon moralis disciplinae"el diálogo y Leonardo Bruni

Abstract

This paper analyses the features of the genre of the "Isagogicon moralis disciplinae" (1424/1425) by the Italian humanist Leonardo Bruni and the rhetorical mechanisms used by the author in the "dispositio" of the work, which is a model of the conjunction between the classical tradition and Bruni’s civil bases. He makes a philosophical-didactical dialogue built according to the rhetorical precept of "exordium", "narratio", "argumentatio" and "peroratio". The "narratio" and the "argumentatio" are developed following the model of Cicero’s "quaestio infinita cognitionis" in the "Topica". Bruni seeks the reader to be moved to practice his own doctrine, so this is the reason why he includes the "exordium" and the "peroratio". In all that, it can be distinguished an intention of integrating the Dialectics into the Rhetoric, according to Cicero’s style, striking a balance in the text between the "inventio", the form and the organization of both of them.