Controversy as long duration History: Ciceronians and anti-Ciceronians from XVII Century

Abstract

This paper discusses examples of the stylistic debate uses and power of discursive representations in some of historians, retors and in the most significant treatises of the Iberian and Italian seventeenth century, as Cabrera de Córdoba (1619), Manuel Severim de Faria (1624), Frei Vicente do Salvador (1630), Famiano Strada (1632) and Agostino Mascardi (1636). Therefore, the seventeenth-century Controversy acute style in History restores the old Controversy of styles.