1C. David Benson, The History of Troy in Middle English Literature: Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae in Medieval England, Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 1980; James Simpson, The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 2, 1350–1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002; “The Other Book of Troy: Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century England”, Speculum 73/2, 1998, p. 397–423; Wolfram R. Keller, Selves and Nations: The Troy Story from Sicily to England in the Middle Ages, Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008.

2Tante cladis diffusa lues, Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, ed. by Nathaniel Edward Griffin, Cambridge (Mass.), Mediaeval Academy of America, 1936, p. 11.

3Alex Mueller, Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2013.

4E. Bagby Atwood, “Some Minor Sources of Lydgate’s Troy Book”, Studies in Philology, 35/1, 1938, p. 25–42; The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Larry D. Benson, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987, 3rd ed., p. 561–563, 573-574, l. 5. 99–189, 5. 1009–1099.

5Raffaele Chiàntera, Guido delle Colonne, Naples, Le Monnieer, 1955, p. 30–32, 244; Egidio Gorra, Testi Inediti di Storia Trojana, Turin, C. Trevirio, 1887, p. 101; Ernst Kantorowicz, Frederick the Second, trans. E.O. Lorimer, New York, Ungar, 1957, p. 322–359.

6Benoît Grévin, “Les mystères rhétoriques de l’État médiéval. L’écriture du pouvoir en Europe occidentale (xiii^e-xv^e siècle)”, Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales, 63/2, 2008, p. 271–300, here p. 283–286.

7Benoît Grévin, Rhétorique du pouvoir médiéval. Les Lettres de Pierre de la Vigne et la formation du langage politique européen (xiii^e-xiv^e siècle), Rome, École française de Rome (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises de Rome et d’Athènes, 339), 2008.

8Grévin, “Les mystères rhétoriques de l’État médiéval…”, art. cited, p. 276–300, here p. 283–284.

9For a detailed explanation of this context and the influence of the Campanian school of the ars dictaminis on Sicilian rhetorical culture, see Benoît Grévin’s essay in this volume, especially p. 44-51.

10Keller, Selves and Nations…, op. cit., p. 238–263, at p. 238.

11Ernst Kantorowicz, “The Prologue to Fleta and the School of Petrus de Vinea”, Speculum 32/2, April, 1957, p. 231–349, at p. 232; Ernst Kantorowicz, “Petrus de Vinea in England”, Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Instituts für Geschichtsforschung 51, 1937, p. 43–88. For the text of Pietro’s summa, see Petrus de Vinea, Friderici II, Imperatoris epistulae. Novam editionem curavit Johannes Rudolphus Iselius, Hildesheim, Weidmannsche Hildesheim, 1992, 2 vol. Guido notes 1297 as the date of the Historia’s completion in his colophon. See Guido de Columnis, Historia, op. cit., p. 276.

12Nicola da Rocca, Epistolae, ed. by Fulvio delle Donne, Florence, Sismel/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003; Fulvio delle Donne, “Una Costellazione di epistolari del XIII secolo. Tommaso di Capua, Pier della Vigna, Nicola da Rocca”, Filologia Mediolatina, 11, 2004, p. 143–159; Benoît Grévin, “L’écriture du latin médiéval (xii-xiv^e siècle). Les paradoxes d’une ‘individuation stylistique’”, in Dominique Iogna-Prat, Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak (dir.), L’Individu au Moyen Âge, Paris, Aubier, 2005, p. 101–115.

13Grévin, “Les mystères rhétoriques de l’État médiéval…”, art. cited, p. 280.

14Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, op. cit., p. 276. For a full discussion of the significance of this correspondence for Guido’s translation project, see Grévin’s essay in this volume, p. 43-62.

15Kantorowicz, “The Prologue to Fleta…”, art. cited, p. 236.

16For a description of the manuscript, see R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2011, p. 28–29. For Riccardo da Pofi, see E. Batzer, Zur Kenntnis de Formularsammlung des Richard von Pofi, Heidelberg, Winter, 1910.

17Grévin, “Les mystères rhétoriques de l’État médiéval…”, art. cited, p. 284. For Tommaso da Capua’s influence, see Hans Martin Schaller, “Studien zur Briefsammlung des Kardinals Thomas von Capua”, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 21, 1965, p. 317–518.

18Martin Camargo, “Epistolary Declamation: Performing Model Letters in Medieval English Classrooms”, Huntington Library Quarterly, 79/3, 2016, p. 345–363, notably p. 348–353 and p. 359–363. For an earlier published French translation, see “La déclamation épistolaire. Lettres modèles et performance dans les écoles anglaises médiévales”, Benoît Grévin (trad.), in Benoît Grévin, Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk (dir.), Le dictamen dans tous ses états. Perspectives de recherche sur la théorie et la pratique de l’ars dictaminis (xi^e-xvi^e siècles), Turnhout, Brepols (Bibliothèque d’histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge, 16), 2015, p. 287–307.

19Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 358; Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 764; Oxford, Balliol College, MS 263 (contains Guido); Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 65.

20Camargo, “Epistolary Declamation…”, art. cited, p. 360, 363: “If someone should wish, in addition, to see letters illustrative of this art, let him read the epistolary writings of Pietro della Vigna, Riccardo da Pofi, the one from Limoges, Peter of Blois, Guido delle Colonne on the history of the Trojans, and the sixth book of the Decretals, along with other carefully prepared compositions.”

21Grévin, Rhétorique du pouvoir médiéval…, op. cit., p. 26.

22Benoît Grévin, “From Letters to Dictamina and Back: Recycling Texts and Textual Collections in Late Medieval Europe (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries)”, in Christian Høgel, Elisabetta Bartoli (dir.), Medieval Letters: Between Fiction and Document, Turnout, Brepols, 2015, p. 407–420, at p. 410.

23The Court of Sapience, ed. by E. Ruth Harvey, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 1984, l. 1925, 1891–1932, 1914.

24Tria sunt: An Art of Poetry and Prose, ed. and trans. by Martin Camargo, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019.

25Martin Camargo, “Beyond the Libri Catoniani: Models of Latin Prose Style at Oxford University ca. 1400”, Mediaeval Studies, 56, 1994, p. 165–187.

26Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, op. cit., p. 275–276: “And I would have decorated this history with a more beautiful dictamen by means of richer metaphors and colours and through occasional digressions, which are the artistry of this dictamen; but frightened by the magnitude of the task, lest I prolong this work by long narration on the pretext of a more decorated dictamen […], I persisted so much that, […] within three months, […] I finished and completed this work in its entirety.” The translation is adapted from Mary Elizabeth Meek’s in Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, Bloomington/London, Indiana University Press, 1974, p. 264.

27Dublin, Trinity College 427 (written before 1415 at Oxford, Merton College) and Oxford, Balliol College 263 (fifteenth century, produced in England) both include Guido’s Historia.

28Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 65.

29Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English Artes Dictandi and Their Tradition, Martin Camargo (ed.), Binghamton, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995, p. 105–147, l. 381–389, 474–477: “The apostrophe is also a rhetorical colour […] which is always accompanied with the interjection, ‘O’, on the occasion of suffering or joy. Many widespread examples of these are available in the commonly known book that Guido delle Colonne wrote, The Trojan War […] Description also augments material, namely, when abandoning narration, we describe a person, place, or time. Many examples of all of these are available in the aforementioned book, The Trojan War.” The folio numbers refer to Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 237, the manuscript on which Camargo’s edition is based.

30W. A. Pantin, “Letters from Durham Registers, c. 1360–1390”, in H. E. Salter, W. A. Pantin and H. G. Richardson (dir.), Formularies Which Bear on the History of Oxford, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1942, vol. 1, p. 217–245, at p. 238: “A simple student of dictamen would profit greatly from use of such a book, which is full of stylistic refinement and verbal elegance, succinct clauses, and completely inventive in its perfect reasoning.”

31Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition…, op. cit., l. 387–389, 474–477.

32Camargo, “Beyond the Libri Catoniani…”, art. cited, p. 176–178.

33John Lydgate, Troy Book, ed. by Henry Bergen, London, Kegan Paul/Trench and Trübner (Early English Text Society, Extra Series 97, 103, and 126), 1906–1935, l. 373.

34Ibid., l. 372–384.

35Capitulum sextum tradit modum debitum proferendi (Camargo, “Epistolary Declamation…”, art. cited, p. 359, 361).

36Malcolm Richardson, “The Fading Influence of the Medieval Ars Dictaminis in England After 1400”, Rhetorica, 19/2, 2001, p. 225–247, at p. 226–227; Martin Camargo, “Between Grammar and Rhetoric: Composition Teaching at Oxford and Bologna in the Late Middle Ages”, in Winifred Bryan Horner and Michael Leff (dir.), Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy, Mahwah, Erlbaum, 1995, p. 83–94, especially 91–93.

37The Court of Sapience, op. cit., l. 1905, 1910–1911.

38Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, op. cit., p. 207.

39Camargo, “Epistolary Declamation…”, art. cited, p. 349–363.

40Lydgate, Troy Book, op. cit., l. 362–369.

41Ian Cornelius, “The Rhetoric of Advancement: Ars Dictaminis, Cursus, and Clerical Careerism in Late Medieval England”, New Medieval Literatures 12, 2010, p. 289–330, especially p. 321–325; H. G. Richardson, “An Oxford Teacher of the Fifteenth Century”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 23, 1939, p. 436–457, at p. 437–444; Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition…, op. cit., p. 171–172.

42O. Simon, Summa dictaminis, ed. by W. A. Pantin, “A Medieval Treatise on Letter-Writing, with Examples, from Rylands Latin MS 394”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 13, 1929, p. 326–382, at p. 334: “Dictamen is a written utterance decorated in elegant words and a striking statement decorated with rhetorical colours. From this definition a sharp investigator who has a passion for elegance may, with care, learn what sort of thing cadencia is. For cadencia could be nothing other than the final closure of clauses or phrases, and especially of words.” Pantin emends ardencia to cadencia here, but Cornelius claims that ardencia is more appropriate here. See “The Rhetoric of Advancement…”, art. cited, p. 322, n. 95.

43James Simpson, “‘Gaufred, deere maister soverain’: Chaucer and Rhetoric”, in Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, p. 126–143.

44The Riverside Chaucer, op. cit., p. 260, l. 73347.

45Martin Camargo, “Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric”, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 34, 2012, p. 173–207.

46Tria sunt, op. cit., p. vii–xviii.

47The Riverside Chaucer, op. cit., p. 365, l. 1469–1470.

48Ibid., p. 355, l. 622–623.

49The following is adapted from a discussion of the Legend in Alex Mueller, Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing Before Digital Technology, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023, p. 196–201.

50Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour, ed. by David J. Parkinson, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 2018, 2nd ed. (https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/parkinson-douglas-palyce-of-honour, accessed 23 January 2020), l. 817–821.

51Marilynn R. Desmond, “The Translatio of Memory and Desire in The Legend of Good Women: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Vernacular Heroides”, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 35, 2013, p. 179–207, especially p. 188-195; ead., “Gender and Desire in Medieval French Translations of Ovid’s Amatory Works”, in James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson, Kathryn L. McKinley (dir.), Ovid in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 108–122.

52Ovidio, «Heroides»: Volgarizzamento fiorentino trecentesco di Filippo Ceffi, ed. by Massimo Zaggia, Florence, SISMEL/Edizioni de Galuzzo, 2009; Libro de la destructione de Troya: volgarizzamento napoletano trecentesco da Guido delle Colonne, ed. by Nicola de Blasi, Rome, Bonacci, 1986.

53The Riverside Chaucer, op. cit., p. 614–616, l. 1368–1395, 1396, 1464, 1465, 1565.

54Desmond, “The Translatio of Memory and Desire…”, art. cited, p. 199.

55The Riverside Chaucer, op. cit., p. 616–617, l. 1579, 1672-1677, 1678–1679.

56Desmond, “The Translatio of Memory and Desire…”, art. cited, p. 202.

57The Riverside Chaucer, op. cit., p. 613, l. 1367.