[1550] Cicero's Rhetoric for Herennius [Ciceronis M. Tullii Rhetoricorum ad Herennium].

[Cicero] M. Tullii Ciceronis Rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri quatuor... [Rhetoric for Herennius books four], Venice 1550 [!], pp. 140, dimensions 22 x 31.5 cm, period parchment cover [minor losses], calligraphed name on crest, some pages with minor signs of flooding, no sign of insects etc..,calligraphed marginalia, pen notes on last page, frayed page edges, text complete.

Rhetoric for Herennius, or Rhetoric to Herennius - a textbook on rhetoric by an anonymous author, probably written in Latin in 86-82 BC. The oldest surviving Roman work on rhetoric. The author of the Rhetoric to Herennius was considered for centuries to be Cicero.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin: Marcus Tullius Cicero), otherwise Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) - writer, speaker, politician, military commander, philosopher, jurist and Roman priest. As a politician and leader at the head of the party defending the Roman republic against Caesar, Antony and Octavian, he failed. As a speaker and writer, admired even by his enemies, he was already a great success during his lifetime.

Cesano Bartolomeo - Italian printer and publisher active in Venice (1544-1554) and Pesaro (1555-1559).