Quntilian on Education: Selections from the Institutes of Oratory, Illustrated

Horne, Herman Harrell (ed.): Catherine Ruth Smith (transl.). Quntilian on Education: Selections from the Institutes of Oratory, Illustrated. New York: New York University Bookstore, ND. 8vo. viii. 260 pp. Brown wrappers with gray cloth spine. Frontis piece with a b/w facsimile of Quntilian. Some age wear to spine and right of front cover. Exlibris of Samuel J. Borowsky. Some marginal pencil marks throughout, but book is in very good condition. vg. Hardcover.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35-ca. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. His work influenced many classical thinkers including but not limited to: Martial, Pliny and Juvenal. His influence spread through the Middle Ages to such thinkers as Saint Augistine. The Italian Renaissance Poet, Petrarch, (1304-1374) addressed one of his letters to the dead in his “Letter to Posterity,” to Quintilian. With the spread of humanism during the Renaissance, many believed that Quntilian’s work provided the inspiration for a new humanistic philosophy of education. (17985) $45