Only 16th-century edition of this practical handbook for adapting ancient speeches to current occasions. The excerpts from Greek historians do print the Greek text, but in minute type, and for these as well as the Roman historians it must be assumed the modern orator will work from the Latin, usefully indexed by type: deliberativum (suasio, exhortatio...); iudiciale (accusatio, mitigatio...); demonstrativum (laudatio, lamentatio...). It is a valuable work for the study of Renaissance rhetoric, and worth restoring: but too common a book for the restoration to be a commercial speculation.