First published in 1986, this book offers the Latin text and English translation of a pivotal work by one of the most influential and controversial writers of early modern times. "Pierre de la Ramee," better known as Peter Ramus, was a college instructor in Paris who published a number of books attacking and attempting to refute foundational texts in philosophy and rhetoric. He began in the early 1540s with books on Aristotle which were later banned and burned and Cicero, and later, in 1549, he published "Rhetoricae Distinctiones in Quintilianum." The purpose of Ramus s book is announced in...