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LOT 30:
1566 LIFE OF PLUTARCH 2 VOLUMES ANTIQUE IN ITALIAN 16TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND
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1566 LIFE OF PLUTARCH 2 VOLUMES ANTIQUE IN ITALIAN 16TH CENTURY VELLUM BOUND
Vite di Plutarco Cheroneo de gli huomini illustri greci et romani, nuovamente tradotte per M. Lodovico Domenichi et altri,
et diligentemente confrontate co' testi greci per M. Lionardo Ghini:
con la vita dell'auttore, descritta da Thomaso Porcacchi...
(Life of Plutarch ... translated by M. Lodovico Domenichi and others, and carefully compared with the Greek texts by M. Lionardo Ghini: with the author's life, described by Thomaso Porcacchi... )
2 volumes
Venice, Gabr. Giolito de' Ferrari; 1566
With 4 printer's devices, several decorative borders and vignettes, and numerous initials.
- Brunet IV, 742; Ebert 17484; Graesse V, 370; Hoffmann III, 392; Schweiger I, 268. -
Translation that remained authoritative until the Veronese edition of 1773, first printed in 1555.
Published as part of Giolito's collection of translations of Greek and Latin historians, which are recommended "as much for their fidelity and accuracy as for their style" (Ebert) and were attractively presented by the publisher...
Original vellum with manuscript title to the spine
Size 7 1/4 by 10 1/4"
470 and 860 pp.
Very good interior condition, minor toning, soiling of vellum, tear to the lower part of the spine of one of the volumes
With 1766 bookplate
Text in Italian
Plutarch (c.?AD 46 – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.
Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was possibly named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
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