Title: Palæstra eloquentiæ ligatæ, Novam ac facilem tam concipiendi, quam scribendi quovis Stylo poëtico methodum ac rationem complectitur, viamque ad solutam eloquentiam aperit. Partis Partis I. Liber primus [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Palæstra eloquentiæ ligatæ, Novam ac facilem tam concipiendi, quam scribendi quovis Stylo poëtico methodum ac rationem complectitur, viamque ad solutam eloquentiam aperit. Partis Partis I. Liber primus. Rationem universim poëticè concipiendi tradit, cum Artificio Homerii &amp; imprimis Virgilii corumque in concipiendo virtutibus simul ac vitiis expositis, Cui accessit brevis vererum Mythologia in ordinem historicum redacta, &amp; per indicem ad usum scribentium directa. Liber secundus. Rationem optimæ Elocutionis investigat &amp; exponit, traditque præcepta tam ornatè quam copiosè in Poësi loquendi cum veterum in Elocutione Poëtarum virtutibus ac vitiis ad certæ artis Regulas expensis. Autore R. P. Jacobo Masenio Societatis Jesu. [Palæstra eloquentiæ ligatæ. Pars altera, quæ Poësin Elegiacam, Poësin Heroicam, Poësin Lyricam, cum plerorumque poëmatum &amp; descriptionum, tam naturalium, quàm moralium exemplis complectitur. Autore R. P. Jacobo Masenio Societatis Jesu ; Palæstræ eloquentiæ ligatæ heroica pœsis præceptionibus &amp; Exemplis illustrata Auctore R. P. Jacobo Masenio è Societate Jesu ; Palæstræ eloquentiæ ligatæ heroica pœmata præcipuorum generum Autore R. P. Jacobo Masenio è Societate Jesu ;  Palæstræ eloquentiæ ligatæ lyrica pœsis, præceptionibus &amp; Exemplis illustrata, Auctore R. P. Jacobo Masenio è Societate Jesu.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">2 volumes in 1 12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. 348, [4] (last blank); pp. [8], 481, [3] (blank). Vellum. Remnants of label over manuscript spine title. Manuscript title on lower edge. Front board loose. Manuscript note ("[4]"?) on title page. Each part has a separate title page, with printer's device. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound with two later parts of the work: "Palæstræ eloquentiæ heroica pœsis, præceptionibvs &amp; exemplis illustrate," and "Palæstræ eloquentiæ lyrica pœsis, præceptionibvs &amp; exemplis illustrata," both from the same author, published in 1655 by the same publisher. The paging is continous between volume 2 and these two works.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes Masen’s Latin poem ‘Sarcotis,’ which William Lauder attempted to prove was one of John Milton’s sources for ‘Paradise Lost.’</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039123639707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>