compositione

When the first edition was published by Campano in 1470, the world of scholars welcomed a familiar friend. Other classical critical treatises filtered into England even more slowly. The De compositione verborum of Dionysius of Halicarnassus received its first printing at the hands of Aldus in 1508 and was edited again by Estienne in 1546, and by Sturm in 1550.

Donald Lemen Clark - Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

47 De Bragmannorum insulis, et aliorum. 48 Aliquid de loco Paradisi terrestris per auditum. 49 In reuertendo de Regnis Cassam, et Riboth, de Diuite Epulone, vel consimili. 50 De compositione huius tractatus in Ciuitate Leodiensi.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 : Asia, Part I

How much more they reflected on it than we do, the Rhetoric of Aristotle, the De Compositione of Dionysius and the endless writings of the rhetoricians show. This is universally admitted, but justice is more rarely done to even clearer evidence of the Greek gift for technique.

- The Legacy of Greece : Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

Ci vuole un studio particolare per queste sorte di compositione, e che deve pero essere una Messa con tutti stromenti Trombe di guerra, Tympani ecc. Ah! che siamo si lontani Carissmo Sgr. P. Maestro, quante cose che avrai a dirgli! Reverisco devotamente tutti i Sgri.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01