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8vo. 2 parts in 1: 569,(6 index),(1 blank); 722,(2 blank); (58 index),(2 blank) p. Modern half vellum 18 cm 'Practical, humane, fascinating, still of signifance'. (Ref: ESTC Citation No. R16191; Schweiger 2,839; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,273; cf. Graesse 5,527 for the edition Franktfurt 1629 with exact the same title) (Details: Back with 3 raised bands) (Condition: Endpapers renewed. Old ownership entries, and some small notes on the title. Paper yellowing. Right lower corner of 3/4 hardly visibly waterstained. Small hole in the blank margin of p. 13/14) (Note: The Roman orator Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, ca. 35 - ca. 100 A.D., was under emperor Vespasian probably the first holder of the chair of Latin rhetoric in Rome paid by the fiscus. (salarium e fisco accepit, Suetonius, Vesp. 17-19) His most celebrated work is the 'Institutio Oratoriae', in 12 books. It 'covers the complete training of the orator from the earliest preparation by the grammarian to his most mature aspirations for oratorical preeminence'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 827) The ideal was a public speaker who was skilled not only in eloquence, but who was also a good man. This is summarized in the famous maxim that an orator is a 'vir bonus dicendi peritus'. Quintilian still makes all that has been written on education from Rousseau to the latest pseudo-psychologist rather worthless. (H.J. Rose, A handbook of Latin literature, London, 1967, p. 399) 'Book 1 discusses childhood education. (.) In book 2 the boy enters the school of rhetoric'. In book 3 follows an account of the art of rhetoric, 'its origin, its parts, and its functions. Book 4-6 deal with the detailed structure of a speech, (.) Book 7 is concerned with arrangement (dispositio) and status-lore. Book 8 discusses style (.) while in book 9 figures of thought and speech are illustrated'. Book 10 contains a critique of Greek and Latin writers. 'Book 11 discusses memory, delivery, gesture and dress (.) The concluding book shows the complete Orator in action, a man of highest character and ideals, (.). Roman gravitas at its noblest'. (OCD 2nd ed., p. 907) The 19 'Declamationes maiores' which have come down to us under the name of Quintilian are certainly not his work. The 'Declamationes minores', a corpus of 145 smaller rhetorical exercises are probably the work of a contemporary rhetorician. § The 'Institutio Oratoria' of Quintilian was known throughout the Middle Ages, especially in the summarizing works of the encyclopedists like Cassiodorus and Isidorus of Sevilla. In 1416 the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini discovered in Sankt Gallen a complete text, after which Quintilian came 'to exert a deep and lasting influence on rhetorical theory and practice'. (The Classical Tradition, p. 829) The treatise influenced authors like Erasmus and Vives. The humanist Poliziano lectured on him, and Lorenzo Valla preferred him to Cicero. His ideas were absorbed by Piccolomini, Agricola, Erasmus (De pueris instituendis), and Melanchthon. He was also used by Ben Jonson (Discoveries), Alexander Pope (Essay on criticism), Du Bos, and Goethe. 'Seine Wirkung geht mit der Verfehmung der Rhetorik im 19. Jh. zurück, doch bleibt Quintilian eine respektierte Grösse bis heute'. (Neue Pauly, 10,719) § Daniel Pareus, German philologist, historian and schoolmaster, son of the classical scholar Johann Philipp Pareus, was born in 1605. He must have been a young scholar of some promise, for the Dutch professor Gerard Vossius, who endeavoured to find publishers for his works, failed to gain him a professorship in the Netherlands. He then went to Kaiserslautern and founded there a Latin School, but not yet 30 years old, he was in 1635 murdered at the occupation of that city by soldiers, or stabbed by a gang of brigands. In his short career he produced an edition of Musaeus (1627), Herodian (1627), 'Mellificium Atticum', a collection of sentences of Greek authors reduced into commonplaces (1629), notes on Quintilian (f. Seller Inventory # 120120
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