Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium Libri IIII Incerto Auctore Ciceronis De Inuentione Libri II Topica Ad Trebatium, Oratoriae Partitiones

Venice, Italy: Ex Bibliotheca Aldina (Aldine Press) (. Very Good+. 1569. Later Printing. Vellum. Also includes: Annotationes, Sevemendationum Rationes Dionisil Lambinimonstroliensis in Cornificii Libros IIII Rhetoric ad Herennium. <P> Likely published by son Paulus Manutius. <P> <P> Full vellum binding. Very Good- condition. The vellum binding is complete and in clean, solid condition. There are four slightly raised bands to the spine of the book. The text pages are generally clean and bright - though there are patches of foxing occasionally throughout. <P> <P> The title page has a previous owner's inked notations (including one that has been marked out on each side of the by the press's famous imprint of the dolphin and anchor) . <P> There is a previous owner's bookplate adhered to the front pastedown page (LeRoy Brandt). <P> "Book IV of the Rhetorica ad Herennium's systematic treatment of Latin oratory style identifies two categories of rhetorical devices, or Figures. These are Figures of Diction, which are identifiable in the language itself, and Figures of Thought, which are derived from the ideas presented. Although these figures have been in use in rhetoric throughout history, the Rhetorica ad Herennium was the first text to compile them and discuss the effects they have on an audience. <P> Many of the following figures described in Book IV are still used in modern rhetoric, though they were originally intended specifically for use in oral debate. " (from Wikipedia) .