ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> The number of editions and translations of the works of the ancient historians is in itself indicative of the tremendous interest of the men of the Renaissance in history. But from ancient writers on rhetoric and oratory they also derived ideals of historical writing which were to motivate and direct their own endeavors. From ancient histories they determined the purposes and principles of historical writing, but treatises on rhetoric and oratory reinforced many of their conceptions of the methods and the qualities of the historian.
