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clementia

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See: clemency, humanity


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Although in the Poetics Aristotle famously argued that tragedy elicits and purges the emotions of pity and fear, in the De clementia Seneca asserted that pity and theatricality were mutually enforcing.
Reinventing romance, or the surprising effects of sympathy by Kahn, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
The justice of the prince is immediately associated with the virtues of benevolentia, liberalitas, and clementia.
The Renaissance novella as justice by Langer, Ulrich / Renaissance Quarterly
Seneca's arguments in De clementia offer almost a point-by-point critique of Euarchus's position.
Castigating Livy: the rape of Lucretia and 'The Old Arcadia.' by Shuger, Debora / Renaissance Quarterly
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