SOME RENAISSANCE POLISH COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE 'RHETORIC' AND HERMOGENES 'ON IDEAS'

In the present manuscript collections of the Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw and the Biblioteka Jagiellortska in Kraków are two commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric and two on Hermogenes’ On Ideas, all evidently composed in the early seventeenth century. This study briefly surveys their contents and organization and attempts to locate them in the cultural milieu of Renaissance Polish scholarship, an area of study almost totally ignored by American and Western European historians of rhetoric. © 1994, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.