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Since the early Middle Ages, the art of composition and style was the subject of regular instruction, which determined the development of a sort of documentary rhetoric, called ars dictaminis or dictamen.

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Since the early Middle Ages, the art of composition and style was the subject of regular instruction, which determined the development of a sort of documentary rhetoric, called ars dictaminis or dictamen.

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