Guido Faba

…the Bolognese professor of rhetoric Guido Faba, illustrated his teaching with examples adapted from Latin. Guittone, his most-notable follower in epistolography, tended toward an ornate style replete with elaborate rhetorical and metrical figures. In contrast with Guittone’s style is the clear scientific prose of Ristoro d’Arezzo’s Della composizione del mondo…