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Brian Vickers has argued that the capacity of rhetoric to move was increasingly stressed between 1540 and 1640: "Of the three goals of rhetoric, movere, docere, and delectare, movere became the most sought-after.

Words as Things by DE GRAZIA, MARGRETA / Shakespeare Studies

The main purpose of a thematic sermon was to teach, whereas "[e]pideictic, even as it taught by 'impressing ideas' upon its listeners, was intensely concerned to move and to please, thereby more effectively fulfilling the prescriptions of the indivisible triad of classical [rhetorical] theory -- docere, movere, delectare," O'Malley, 1979, 44.

Marriage, sexual pleasure, and learned brides in the wedding orations ... by D'Elia, Anthony F. / Renaissance Quarterly

Then, and in our own time, defenders of the Soledades have stressed the formal qualities of the poetry, admiring exactly what appalled Gongora's critics: the function of docere seems conspicuously absent, leaving only the function of delectare (possible, that is, only for the select few able to understand it).

The Transforming Text: A Study of Luis de Gongora's by WELLES, MARCIA L. / Renaissance Quarterly