Unterricht in der Beredsamkeit

A comprehensive twelve-book manual lays out a lifetime curriculum for rhetorical training, following instruction from early schooling through exercises in invention, arrangement, expression, memory, and delivery to the finished public speaker. It prescribes graded exercises, reading lists, and practical examples, pairs stylistic rules with pedagogical method, and insists that moral character be central to persuasive authority. One section surveys exemplary literature and recommends models for imitation, while other parts address courtroom and civic speaking, pedagogy, and techniques for composing and presenting speeches with clarity and force.