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Report No. r561

De modis arguendi

 

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Biography/Description

A genre of legal texts. Those edited by Caprioli give a good sense of the range of them: (1) Dinus de Mugello (d. after 1298), Dini opusculum [De modo arguendi] (ed. Studi Senesi 75:40–54); (2) Rainerius de Forlivio (d. 1358), Raineri Summa super modo arguendi (ed. id.:111–185); (3) Opusculum De variis modos arguendi tam iuris canonici quam ciuilis secundum Iohannem Andree (d. 1348) et Iacobum de Arenis (d. c. 1296) (ed. id.:231–233); (4) Lecturae cuiusdam reliquiae Londinensis [De modis argumentandi] (probably from the school of Cinus de Pistoia, d. 1336) (ed. id.:235–249); (5) Iohannis Baptistae de Caccialupis (d. 1496) opusculum [De argumentandi doctrina] (ed. id. 77:40–54).

 

Entry by: KP rev AL, rev CD i.2017

Literature

H. Hohmann, ‘Logic and Rhetoric in Legal Argumentation: Some Medieval Perspectives’, Argumentation, 12 (1998) 39–55.

S. Caprioli, ‘De “modis arguendi” scripta rariora: 5. Iohannis Baptistae de Caccialupis opusculum’, Studi senesi, 77 (1965) 355–414.

S. Caprioli, ‘De “modis arguendi” scripta rariora’, Studi senesi, 75 (1963) 30–56, 107–90, 230–53.