CICERO, Marcus Tullius, [LAMBIN, Denis.]

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Very good copy of two Aldine editions, intended as companion volumes, of Cicero s rhetorical works, here issued for the first time with a commentary by the humanist Denis Lambin. Despite the imprimatur Ex Bibliotheca Aldina , these works were printed by the Torresani, heirs to Andrea, Aldus s socerus and associate; these were also their first Ciceronian editions. The Torresani editions have been praised as handsome, almost all rare, and kept in much esteem (Renouard, Notice , 72). Due to their excellence, they were either attributed to Aldus and his heirs or mistaken for counterfeits even by notable bibliographers until the mid-C19 (Bernoni, Dei Torresani , 128). One of the most influential figures of classical antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) put his legal skills to the service of politics with speeches which became landmarks of forensic oratory. Defined by Quintilian as eloquence itself , his copious prose production occupied a fundamental place in medieval syllabi. Subsequent to the rediscovery of further texts, including the letters, by scholars like Petrarch, Cicero contributed to forging the Latin style of the Renaissance and its ideas on political theory (e.g., Republicanism), rhetoric (e.g., the principles of argument, eloquence and invention) and philosophy (e.g., Stoicism). The first work in this sammelband includes his greatly influential ad Herennium , by then presented as probably spurious ( incerto auctore ), as well as De inventione and Topica (how t

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