Summary
Frane Petrić: Della retorica dieci dialoghi
Venice: Francesco Senese, 1562
The first edition of the work "Ten dialogues on rhetoric" by the Croatian philosopher, polyhistorian and humanist Frane Petrić (1529-1597). One of Petrić's lesser-known works in which he deals with the science of language and speech. Reflecting on the relationship between rhetoric and related disciplines, he built a theory of language, the process of understanding, explaining his thesis of perfect rhetoric-anti-rhetoric, based as a philosophical-scientific discipline, according to the model of secure and perfect knowledge of mathematical science.
Hardcover in parchment, 61 pages. 15x20.5 cm. Excellent condition.
Ex libris Dubravčić.
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