page_title: Epitome margaritae eloquentiae
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caption_attribution_description: The second page of a ballad relating to Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519-1536) written on a sheet inserted at the back of the volume
context_page_description: The Epitome margaritae eloquentiae in Leeds Special Collections is the only surviving copy of a book on rhetoric written in Latin by Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni. The author used the pen name Guillermus Saphoensis in this work.
  Traversagni was a Franciscan friar and humanist scholar from Savona, Northern Italy. Considered to have been the first humanist professor of rhetoric at the University of Cambridge, Traversagni wrote the Margaritae eloquentiae as a guide to rhetoric and the art of preaching. The original book was published in 1478 under the full title of Rhetorica nova, sive, Margarita eloquentiae castigate ad eloquendum divina accommodata.
  The Epitome margaritae eloquentiae is a short summary of Rhetorica nova and was finished during Traversagni’s stay in Paris in 1480. It was only ever published in England by William Caxton probably in the same year. Traversagni is known to have visited England twice in the 1470s and may have paid Caxton to print the book. Traversagni could then sell copies to his pupils. In the Epitome Traversagni argues that preaching is a rhetorical skill which aims to promote Christian virtue.
context_section_description: There is a handwritten annotation on the verso of the final leaf of the book and the recto of an inserted leaf.  This is in black ink and comprises a ballad with text and music A lytyll ballet mayde of ye yong dukes grace about Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
caption: The second page of a ballad relating to Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519–1536) written on a sheet inserted at the back of the volume
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