Year: | 1511 | |
Short description: | Erasmus publishes "De Copia" | |
Medium description: | Erasmus publishes "De Copia (De Duplici Copia Verborum ac Rerum)" in Basle. A textbook written for St Paul's school, then being set up by Colet, but became the standard work on rhetoric in grammar schools across Europe. Consisted of 2 parts: the 1st a vocabulary for use in rewriting and expanding a given statement; the 2nd different ways in which the statement might be worded. [Batho states 1611; but an obvious typo] | |
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