"Visiones". Visual tools nell’oratoria forense antica e moderna

Abstract

[“Visiones”. Visual tools in ancient and contemporary forensic oratory] Since the end of the last century, many scholars have studied the capability of visual languages and images themselves to “argue”. Visual argumentation is deeply rooted in Greek and Roman rhetoric, which already distinguished between the use of real visual tools and the use of words for producing images and suggestions. Today, it is more than ever necessary to establish a balanced relationship between images and words, as the ancient rhetoricians already prescribed. Although it is not easy to reconstruct a continuity between ancient and modern rhetorical techniques, comparing them to each other is a possible and useful exercise.