Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII, singulari cum studio tum iudicio doctissimorum virorum ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recogniti ac restituti... Declamationum liber. Additae sunt Petri Mosellani... Annotationes in septem libros priores, & Ioachimi Camerarii in primu[m] & secundu[m]. Quibus & accessit doctissimus Co[m]mentarius Antonii Pini Portodemaei in tertiu, nunc multo quam ante, castigator

Bookseller Notes

Originally printed by Josse Bade in 1531, is this edition of Quintilian's discourses on oratory and rhetoric, annotated and prepared by Guillaume Philander (or Philandrier, 1505-1565).Quintilian's twelve-book guide to rhetoric was written in the late first century CE, under Domitian, for whom he worked as tutor to the imperial family. He has much to say about what a good education in rhetoric looks like, the technical details of grammar, and how to craft a good speech. He compares Greek and Roman authors in rhetoric and speech, painting the Romans as equally capable as the Greeks in this field of scholarship. It is thanks to Quintillian that details of an orator's dress and gestures have been preserved, giving life to this important aspect of the ancient world.Originally belonging to an old Burgundian family, the editor of this volume was secretary to Georges d'Armagnac, Bishop of Rodez, who encouraged his architectural and general humanist interests. Philander earned particular fame for his Annotationes of Vitruvius (1544). This copy from the library of de Corbeau de Vaulserre, of Savoy.