Rhetoric and Truth

In this book are presented four chapters that refer to Rhetoric art, dealing with the concept of persuasion and the necessary elements for this. Chapter 1, Biography of Admirable Professors, aims to address the importance of knowing biographies, even of people who lived long ago. Definition of Important Concepts is the title of chapter 2, which treats basic concepts for the context of the book, such as Art, Rhetoric, Dialectics, Oratory and Eloquency. Next, chapter 3, The Discourse, which deals subjects such as persuading or speaking well, the parts and the structure of the discourse, the explanation of the parts of discourse and the stages of the elaboration of discourse. The last chapter, the fourth, titled Qualities, deals with correction, clarity, simplicity, virtue, beauty, goodness, utility, and truth, as well as a last important reflection on the possibility of persuading oneself through the false. Finally, what was wanted was to provide the reader interested in understand more about persuasion through speechs a script about what they should know and do, and how, with simple and objective explanations.