The Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius), formerly attributed to Cicero or Cornificius, but in fact of unknown authorship, sometimes ascribed to an unnamed doctor, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the late 80s BC, and is still used today as a textbook on the structure and uses of rhetoric and persuasion.. At the request of William of Santo …

Mehmed II was born on 30 March 1432, in Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state.His father was Sultan Murad II (1404–1451) and his mother Hüma Hatun, a slave of uncertain origin.. When Mehmed II was eleven years old he was sent to Amasya with his two lalas (advisors) to govern and thus gain experience, per the custom of Ottoman rulers before his time.