The Study of Rhetoric and Grammar

Melancthon's text book on rhetoric went through thir editions in a single decade, until he replaced it with a new work on the topic in 15 30. His treatise on the soul was printed more than forty times in the second half of the century and made the subject of further commentary. And controversially, he ultimately adopted a position on free will that veered closer to that of erasmus. He drew on classical authors including aristotle and cicero to understand the rules of dialectic and rhetoric.