Del "Ars grammaticae" al "Ars epistolaris"el "De componendis epistolis" de Niccolò Perotti

Résumé

The object of this paper is to show the fundamental role that some artes grammaticae, such as, Rudimenta grammatices de Niccolo Perotti, had in the unfolding of the epistolary art at the beginnings of the Renaissance. However, still many copies on Perotti's last section of his ars, De componendis epistolis, continue to hide unpublished in libraries, being the object of neglet and partial readings that understimate the role ot the work in the history of epistolography. The model letter which ends the thirde book of this treatise is the true centre of all his grammatical teaching. A closed analysis of this epistle allows us to fully appreciate the humanistic spint that permeates the global and pedagogial conception the Italian author had on the epistolary genre.