[11] Edited by Louis Humbert, Paris, 1914.
[12] Sir John Cheke, however, spoke as a scholar when he wrote to Hoby: “I am of opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangeled with borrowing of other tunges.” Quoted in Arber’s Introduction to Ascham’s Scholemaster, p. 5.
[13] Parodied by Orationes obscurorum virorum (before 1515), which was part of the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn controversy.
[14] This is the exercise called by the ancients declamatio. See ARP (Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic) and a letter of Erasmus, May 1, 1506.
[15] Bartholomaei Riccii De imitatione libri tres (Venice, 1545), folio 38 verso. See below, Chapter III, Sect. 3.
[16] MRP (Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic) I and II.
[17] Ep. 221 in Migne’s Patrologia latina (Vol. 199, p. 247), which dates it 1167; Ep. 223, p. 389, in the collection of the letters of Gerbert, John of Salisbury, and Stephen of Tournay printed by Ruette (Paris, 1611). The letter is translated MRP 209.
[18] Apologia dei dialoghi, opening; p. 516 of the Venice, 1596, edition.
[19] For De oratore, see ARP.
[20] Minturno, Arte poetica, is mere catechism. Perionius hardly achieves dialogue at all; his interlocutors merely interrupt.