# De laudibus eloquentiae [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 39\) ## Commentary This manuscript, dedicated to Pope Leo X \(Giovanni de' Medici, son of Lorenzo il Magnifico\), contains a sermon that Raffaele Brandolini Lippo \(c. 1465-1517\) gave at the church of Sant'Eustachio in Rome on 18 October 1513, praising the plan for reform of studies promoted by the Pope. Brandolini taught rhetoric and was a renowned composer of Latin prose. On folio 1 the Medici coat of arms and family devices appear in the decoration. The artist who executed the decoration may have been a pupil of the Florentine illuminator Attavante. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()