Erasmus, Cicero and the Debate over the Ideal Latin Style:
The Rhetorica ad Herennium

Some works traditionally assigned to Cicero were later identified as misattributions. One example of a work assigned to Cicero, the Rhetorica ad Herennium (On the Theory of Public Speaking), was met with skepticism as early as the fifteenth-century, although it remained a standard text for the study of rhetorical style. The CRRS’s 1511 Venice edition is complete with an extensive printed commentary and beautiful, marginal notes in an early italic hand.

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