Iulius Severianus was a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

rhetor who lived in the 5th century AD. He wrote a book entitled ''Praecepta artis rhetoricae''. One of the manuscripts (Cod. Bodmer 146, 10th century) was owned by

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...

, who studied and commented on it with many glossa.

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*''Rhetores Latini minores'', Karl Halm (ed.), Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863
pp. 353-370
Ancient Roman rhetoricians 5th-century Romans {{AncientRome-bio-stub