Typologie des lettres de Montaigne d’après l’Epistolica institutio (1591) de Juste Lipse

Despite numerous publications on epistolary rhetoric in the Renaissance, Montaigne’s letters have not so far been studied as other 16th century correspondences in the light of letter-writing manuals. The current article intends to read Montaigne’s epistolary corpus in relation to Justus Lipsius’s contemporary treatise, Epistolica Institutio (1591).