Rhetorical Flourishes
HERMOGENES.
Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη. Hermogenis ars oratoria absolutissima, et libri omnes. Cum nova versione Latina e regione contextus Graeci, & commentariis Gasparis Laurentii. Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.
8vo, pp. [xvi], 568, [16], 229, [1 (errata), 2 (blanks)]; Greek and Latin parallel text in double columns, woodcut printer’s device to title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, ruled in red throughout; small wormholes at foot of first two quires, small stain at foot of B6r, small stain to head of several quires in centre of volume, printing error on p2r affecting legibility, a fine copy; bound in contemporary vellum, frame of double gilt fillets to covers and flat spine, manuscript title on spine erased, later French paper label, foredge flaps, gilt edges, holes from two pairs of ties, blue and yellow headbands; binding a little soiled, pastedowns slightly torn with a few small wormholes.
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Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη. Hermogenis ars oratoria absolutissima, et libri omnes. Cum nova versione Latina e regione contextus Graeci, & commentariis Gasparis Laurentii.
A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in a simple but fine contemporary binding.
Several manuals of rhetoric are attributed to Hermogenes, though the identification with Hermogenes of Tarsus (c. 160–225 AD) is now disputed; the present volume contains both authentic and spurious works, probably assembled as a collection during the fifth or sixth century by a Byzantine teacher or scholar. Hermogenes’ works on rhetoric were to the Byzantine world what Cicero’s De inventione was to the Latin West; Hermogenes was introduced to the Renaissance by George of Trebizond, through his incorporation of much of Hermogenes’ text into his Rhetorica. The Greek text first appeared in Aldus’ compilation, Rhetores Graeci, in 1508–1509.
The text was prepared and translated by Gaspard Laurent (1556–1636), who also provided the extensive commentary. Laurent was appointed professor of Greek in Geneva in 1597, following Isaac Casaubon’s resignation. He was also a pastor, as many of the Geneva professors were, and was the author of Protestant confessional works.
USTC 2148939 (with imprint mistakenly given as Cologne) and 6703598 (with imprint as Geneva).