Les sources du Thesaurus rhetoricae de Giovanni Battista Bernardo (1599)

In 1599, the Thesaurus rhetoricae by G. B. Bernardo was published in Venice. This work seeks to define rhetorical processes and figures, organised alphabetically in a glossary with some five thousand entries. Each notice ends with a precise bibliographic indication which refers to a list of works placed at the front of the volume. The article focuses on this list in order to understand the rhetorical ­context in which ­contemporaries ­conceived of their discourse.