Trivium
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The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Allegory of Grammar and Logic/Dialectic. Perugia, Fontana Maggiore.
Allegory of Grammar. Priscian on the left teaches Latin grammar to his students on the right. Relief by Luca della Robbia. Florence, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
Rhetoric
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Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse of classical antiquity, along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhe
Trivium
…The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The trivium is implicit in De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella, but the term was not…
Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven independent arts. This painting illustrates rhetoric.
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
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