This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm. Mack delivers an ambitious history with great acumen, balancing descriptions and readings of discrete works with detailed information about their publication. ... It is a masterful work and an important resource for scholars and students interested in the shapes and capacities of Renaissance humanism and its afterlives.