Rhetoric
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi by Albertanus of Brescia, 1487
part
Identifier: MS 210/ff. 268r-275v
Scope and Contents
This section contains a printed copy of the Tractus de arte loquendi and tacendi ('Treatise on the art of talking and being silent'), written by Albertano de Brescia in 1245. It is a text dedicated to his son, in which de Brescia gives advice on how and when to speak. He explains when and to whom he should be speaking, and of which subjects. He also comments about delivery and style, and gives templates for different kinds of documents: laws, letters,...
Dates:
1487