QUINTILIEN
Declamationes innumeris locis emendatae ex recensione Ulrici Obrechti
Sumptibus Joh. Reinhold Dusseck|Argentorati [Strasbourg] • (Strasbourg) 1698|16 x 22 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary vellum and corners half-binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title. Head damaged without loss. Foot with torn vellum but without loss (board visible).
The Declamationes are drafts of speeches, school exercises for rhetoric. There are 19 declamationes maiores and 145 declamationes minores. This work was falsely attributed to Quintilian and is now classified under the author Pseudo-Quintilian, but it is thought to have been produced by his school. The declamationes formed the supreme exercise for rhetoric students, who had to be able to produce a speech, more precisely a plea on any subject; thus the subjects of the Declamationes are often extravagant, with numerous cases of magic and supernatural intervention, because the more extraordinary the case treated, the more the piece of eloquence intended for the defense had to be based on rhetoric.
Contemporary vellum and corners half-binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title. Head damaged without loss. Foot with torn vellum but without loss (board visible).
The Declamationes are drafts of speeches, school exercises for rhetoric. There are 19 declamationes maiores and 145 declamationes minores. This work was falsely attributed to Quintilian and is now classified under the author Pseudo-Quintilian, but it is thought to have been produced by his school. The declamationes formed the supreme exercise for rhetoric students, who had to be able to produce a speech, more precisely a plea on any subject; thus the subjects of the Declamationes are often extravagant, with numerous cases of magic and supernatural intervention, because the more extraordinary the case treated, the more the piece of eloquence intended for the defense had to be based on rhetoric.
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