Quintilian:: [Institutio Oratoria]

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Quintilian: : [Institutio Oratoria]

8vo. ff. [iv], 269 [ie 369]. Lacking final leaf (V8), blank except for printer’s device to verso. Latin text, printed in italic letter, light waterstaining, a few early marginalia. Dedicated by Filippo Giunta to Roberto Acciaioli. Nineteenth-century sheep-backed boards, rebacked, sprinkled edges.

Quintilian’s twelve-book guide to rhetoric was written in the late first century AD, under Domitian. It was popular with Renaissance humanists such as Petrarch. This is the only Giunta edition, and a “very elegantly printed book”., Dibdin II, 367; Adams Q53.

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