1521 ALDINE Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Rhetoric Speeches ROME Famed Aldus

1521 ALDINE Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Rhetoric Speeches ROME Famed Aldus

One of the earliest books on teaching public speaking!

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, or Quintilian, was a 1^st-century Roman scholar most remembered for his theoretical textbook, ‘Institutio Oratoria’. This work deals with the foundations and development of teaching orations and public speaking. Quintilian’s most important point was that speeches provided the message of the speaker being a ‘good man’ and that there is a direct correlation between the quality of a speech and the quality of a man’s character. This book was known to have significant influence on Martial, Seneca, Juvenal, and Saint Augustine, who all credited Quintilian with focusing their orations.

This 1521 edition of Quintilian was published by the famed Aldus Manutius in Venice.

Item number: #23082

Price: $1950

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius

1. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII

Venetia: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, 1521.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 230 leaves
  • Signatures: *⁴ a-z⁸ A-E⁸ F⁶
• References: USTC 851768
• Provenance:
  • Label – The Hon. & Rev. F. de Grey
    • Frederick de Grey (1810-1881) was the rector of Copdock and the 4^th son of Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham (1778–1839) was Archdeacon of Winchester.
  • Handwritten – [Alexandri Peccrii]
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)
• always rare and desirable

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