Abstract
This contribution introduces the proceedings of the international conference The Sophistic Renaissance: Authors, Texts, Interpretations held in Veniceon September 26 th , 2016 as part of my Marie Sklodowska-Curie project Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) and the Rebirth of Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance at Ca’ Foscari University (2015-2016). This introduction briefly presents the status quaestionis and the essays collected herein, discusses the challenges scholars encounter while exploring the legacy of ancient sophists in early modern culture, and addresses some promising lines of research for deepening some aspects of the subject in the future.
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