ABSTRACT

This chapter applies the results of an updated and extended investigation of the printings of Aristotle's Rhetoric between 1477 and 1599 to demonstrate the availability of the Rhetoric during the Renaissance. It has four limitations. First, the research was confined to editions in Greek and Latin. Second, no inferences can be drawn either from where the books were published or from where they are now housed as to their influence on learning in that area. Third, inferences are not drawn concerning the uses to which the editions were put. Fourth, there can be no guarantee that further editions of the Rhetoric printed between 1475 and 1599 will not be discovered.