Toruńska Olbiopolis. Tropy i fi gury Ulryka Schobera

The paper consists of three closely related parts. The first section discusses a prefatory letter addressed to Heinrich Stroband , Burgomaster of Thorun , in which the author explained the didactic and moralistic purpose of his literary work. The second part brings considerations on epigrams based on tropes and figures as seen from the perspective of rhetorical criticism. And finally, the third part of the study is a transcription of the discussed verses, divided by Schober into four sections: ten tropes and three classes of rhetorical devices: figures of amplification or exageration.