[1] Emmanuel Alvarez, who would later write the first Jesuit Latin grammar handbook (De institutio grammatica libri tres), also worked with Soarez.
[1] With Francisco Suarez, Soarez was appointed to the committee to offer feedback on the Society's developing Ratio studiorum.
[1] Concerned that young students in Jesuit colleges were not ready for major rhetorical texts such as Aristotle's Rhetoric, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Soarez wrote De arte rhetorica as digest of their work as an introduction for students still learning Latin.
[1] Soarez wrote the first draft of the work around 1562; it was revised by fellow Jesuit Pedro Juan Pepinyá in about 1565.
[2][3] Soarez intended the De arte rhetorica as an introductory digest that would introduce students to the principles of rhetoric and oratory; though students had learned Latin grammar, he found that they were not guaranteed to have facility reading “Quintilian, Cicero, Virgil, Sallust, and the other authors.