Conrad of Mure, also often referred to as Conrad of Muri (c. 1210 – March 30, 1281), was rector of the diocesan school attached to the Zurich Minster and author of a number of important treatises on

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

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poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. His ''Summa de arte prosandi'' (1275–1276) is one of the most learned introductions to the art of letter writing in the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

.Martin Camargo, "Where's the Brief?: The ''Ars Dictaminis'' and Reading/Writing Between the Lines," in ''The Late Medieval Epistle'', ed. Carol Poster and Richard Utz (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1966), pp. 1–17.

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