Erasmus, Cicero and the Debate over the Ideal Latin Style:
Etienne Dolet’s Dialogus, de imitatione Ciceroniana

Etienne Dolet’s (1508-1546) Dialogus, de imitatione Ciceroniana: aduersus Desiderium Erasmum Roterodamum, pro Christophoro Longolio offers an extended response to the works of both Longueil and Erasmus. His support for Longueil is made abundantly clear in his title, but his description of Erasmus as a “toothless old food-for-worms” provides an even clearer sense of where his allegiance lies. Dolet is one among several scholars who continued the debate on Ciceronian style into the 1530s. Our copy is of the 1535 first edition, printed in Lyon, France by Sébastien Gryphe.

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