Epistolarum [...] liber. Nunc demùm auctus & ab innumeris penè mendis, quibus librariorum incuria scatebat, repurgatus. Cui accesserunt epistolas aliquot D. Roberti Turneri ethices et eloquentiæ Professoris in Academia Ingolstadiensi. Una cum epistola Julii Pogiani viri disertiss. De Ciceronis imitandi modo

8vo. (2), 290 pp., (5) leaves. A-T8 (T8 is blank). Title and text within rulers. Contemporary blind stamped pigskin, two clasps.
Adams, M-1976; VD 16, M-6825; G. Stalla, Bibliographie der Ingolstädter Drucker des 16. Jahrhunderts, (Baden-Baden, 1977), no. 1506.
 
SECOND EDITION of Muret's collected letters. It contains the same letters in the same order as in the first edition printed in 1580 in Paris, with the omission of one letter in Greek addressed to Muret by a Nicholaos son of Nathaniel (dated Venice, 1559), and with the addition (by Muret himself?) of a letter to Sinibaldo Antonini, dated Rome, December 13, 1578, i.e. all in all 96 letters (although the last letter is numbered 97, for the poem by Justus Lipsius addressed to Muret is included in the numeration).
“Many more letters of Muretus survive than he published himself in a volume printed at Paris in 1580, i.e. five years before he died [...] The Paris selection comprises ninety-seven letters. In 1584 a new edition was published at Ingolstadt, to which one more letter was added, possibly by the author himself. In 1592 a posthumous edition was made by Johannes Croessel, also at Ingolstadt. This editor used materials collected by the Bavarian pupil of Muretus in Rome, Marcus Welser [...] Our next question concerns the order in which the letters are presented to the reader, i.e. the general structure of the book. This order is certainly not chronological and Muretus was anxious to underline the absence of chronological structure from the very beginning. In fact, the collection opens with a  number of letters to Muretus' Venetian printer and friend Paulus Manutius [...] The letters are not ordered by correspondents either. Although one could get that impression at the beginning [...] What then, one will ask, is the thread which connects them all and leads us to a correct understanding of the book? It is not clear from the beginning, but it dawns upon the reader at first dimly, then asserts itself more and more forcefully until, at the end, no doubt is left: Muretus is writing an autobiography and a self-defence, a real Apologia pro vita sua: it is the revenge of an old man, who publishes the proof of his successful career in the very town from whence he was ignominiously exiled in his youth. Of course, Muretus being an artist of the written word, does not proceed like a cool historian who writes a systematic survey of his life and deeds but he works like a skilful painter, drawing the main lines and adding touches and colours with subtle artistry until the end we see the finished picture in its full splendour, which is a famous vir bonus, docendi peritus, not in Paris, but in Rome, the undisputed capital of both the classical-humanist and the Roman catholic world” (J. Iisewijn, Marcus Antonius Muretus epistolographus, in: “La correspondance d'Érasme et l'épistolographie humaniste”, Bruxelles, 1985, pp. 185-187; see also J. Rice Henderson, On Reading the Rhetoric of the Renaissance Letter, in: “Renaissance Rhetorik: Renaissance rhetoric”, H.F. Plett, ed., Berlin, 1993, pp. 143-144).
At the end (pp. 284-290) is printed the letter by Giulio Poggiani (1522-1568) to Nicholas Fitzherbert on the imitation of Cicero, dated Rome, March 31, [before 1568] (cf. C. Mouchel, Cicéron et Senèque dans la rhétorique de la Renaissance, Marburg, 1990, p. 516).
 
Nicot, Jean. Roma, August 24, 1579 (p. 1)
from Nicot, Jean. Bray Comte Robert, September 30, 1579 (p. 7)
Manuzio, Paolo. Padova, March 29, [1568] (p. 14)
id. Padova, April 12, 1568 (p. 16)
id. Pavova, May 6, 1568 (p. 17)
id. Padova, April 22, [1568] (p. 19)
id. Padova, May 13, [1568] (p. 20)
id. Padova, April 27, [1568] (p. 21)
id. Padova, May 8, [1568] (p. 22)
id. Ferrara, July 19, [1568] (p. 23)
id. Padova, June 17, [1568] (p. 25)
id. [Padova?], May 16, [1568] (p. 26)
id. Padova, June 2, [1568] (p. 27)
id. [Padova, 1568?, Cum constituissem hodie] (p. 29)
id. Padova, August 26, [1568] (p. 31)
id. Padova, June 14, 1558 [i.e. 1568?