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work_l5m4zqbegzaw5i6tlyu6xmhu2i	Alex Davis	Revolution by Degrees: Philip Sidney and Gradatio	2011	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10011	606	63	The opening poem of Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella Renaissance Figures of Speech.6 My aim is to discuss Sidney's uses of gradatio, The second and third lines of Astrophil and Stella 1 present a characteristically Sidnean combination of two rhetorical figures: anadiplosis on the Sidney's use of the figure of gradatio has previously been discussed by B. can simply observe that gradatio was one of Sidney's favorite and most characteristic rhetorical figures.11 Sidney's use of these figures delineates a sequence of cause and effect: knowledge leads to pity leads to grace; that a humanistically trained sixteenth-century writer like Sidney would certainly have been familiar with, from the ninth book of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian's Institutio oratoria (ca. Fraunce therefore locates Sidney—three of whose uses of gradatio follow, beginning with Astrophil and Stella 1—as the significant heir of the Rather, Astrophil's gradatio —understood within the history of its use, located in a poem	./cache/work_l5m4zqbegzaw5i6tlyu6xmhu2i.pdf	./txt/work_l5m4zqbegzaw5i6tlyu6xmhu2i.txt