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active 15th century Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus

A Renaissance humanist from Veroli, he wrote about the craft of letter writing and helped shape the study of rhetoric in late 15th-century Italy. His work sits at the meeting point of classical learning, education, and the art of polished communication.

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Des bonnes moeurs et honnestes contenances que doit garder un jeune homme, tant à table qu'ailleurs, avec autres notables enseignemens

Des bonnes moeurs et honnestes contenances que doit garder un jeune homme, tant à table qu'ailleurs, avec autres notables enseignemens

by active 15th century Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus

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Active in the late 15th century, Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus—also known as Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli—was an Italian humanist and rhetorician associated with the world of Renaissance education. He is remembered especially for writing on epistolary style, a subject that mattered deeply in an age when letters were central to scholarship, diplomacy, and public life.

Sources found during this search describe him as the author of a treatise on how to compose and ornament letters, usually referred to as De componendis et ornandis epistolis, dated to around 1475. That focus places him firmly within the humanist effort to recover classical Latin models and teach clear, elegant expression.

Although surviving biographical details are limited, his reputation endured enough to be noted in later reference works, and he appears as part of the broader tradition of Renaissance teachers who turned rhetoric into a practical art. For listeners interested in early humanism, he offers a glimpse of a literary culture built on learning, form, and the power of the written word.