De Officiis
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De Officiis is a 44 BC treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations. The posthumou
Title page of De Officiis. Christopher Froschouer – 1560.
From a German edition – 1531
Henry VIII's childhood copy of De Officiis, bearing the inscription "Thys boke is myne" in his hand, from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aelius Donatus
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Aelius Donatus was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric, whose works on Latin grammar were very widely used in the teaching of Latin during the Middle Ages. His Ars minor was the standard elemen
De Officiis
…many classical works. Following the invention of the printing press, De Officiis was the third book to be printed—third only to the Gutenberg Bible and Donatus's Ars Minor, which was the first printed book. Petrarch, the father of humanism and a leader in the revival of Classical learning, championed Cicero…
from Nuremberg Chronicle