DU VAIR, Guillaume] - De L'Eloquence françoise. By G. D. V. - Lot 494

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DU VAIR, Guillaume] - De L'Eloquence françoise. By G. D. V. - Lot 494
DU VAIR, Guillaume] - De L'Eloquence françoise. By G. D. V. Rouen, Claude Le Villain, 1606. Pet. in-12, 287 ff, epoch flap vellum, cords. First published in 1594, this treatise is a manifesto in favor of simple, straightforward eloquence, free of the bombastic digressions drawn from antiquity that often cluttered the harangues of his contemporaries. Includes his translation of two orations by Aeschines and Demosthenes, as well as Appius Claudius and Cicero.
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