87 introduction Warsaw, at the widow and heirs of Piotr Elert, Printer of His Royal Majesty. 1664.” Both editions bear a special dedication to the Mother of God. In turn, the title page of the fourth edition displays the following title: “Messenger of the Queen of the Arts, that is, Training Students in Skillful Speech-making, by Fr. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary of the Pious Schools. Fourth edition, Cracoviae, [printed] at the print shop of Baltazar Smieszkowic, [Printer] of His Royal Majesty. With the permission of the superiors.” Included also are statements on eloquence by three authors, namely Gregory the Great, Louis de Bourbon, and Cassiodorus9 (whom the fourth edition named the author of the statement previously attributed to Cassian), which were cited in editions I and II. Furthermore, Fr. Papczyński added the statement of Isidore of Pelusium10: “I would call an orator (eloquens) someone who is able to express in a clear [lucid] speech what he had embraced with his mind, but not someone who obscures even the most obvious and transparent by using big scholarly and sophisticated words. The first person can [properly] explain something that might be unclear, the other would make even more obscure that which is obvious to everyone. For this reason, the first person who wishes to help everyone is showered with the highest praise, while the 9 Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (“Senator” was part of his surname, not his rank), ca. 480-570, quaestor sacri palatii, magister officiorum, praetorian prefect for Italy, a patrician and consul of Rome, then a monk and abbot of the Vivarium monastery which he founded, author of historical works (about the Goths) and exegetical works of an encyclopedic character, such as Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum or Instruction in Theological and Secular Sciences (in two volumes), and works on education during trivium (when rhetoric was taught) and quadrivium. 10 Isidore of Pelusium (ca. 370 – ca. 435/450) was born to a prominent Alexan- drian family who saw to his education. Later he became an ascetic and a monk – and subsequently the abbot – at a mountain near the city of Pelusium in Egypt, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers. He became a student and friend of John Chrysostom. The pronunciation cited by Fr. Papczyński comes from Isidore’s 46th letter from Book Three (he wrote 2,012 letters in total, which were collected in five books).
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