[Opera.]

CICERO. [MANUTIUS, Paolo (ed.)]

Edité par I-IV) and VI-XII) Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1547-1563; V) Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Torresani, 1519

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8vo. I) ff. 184; II) ff. 240; III) ff. 348; IV) ff. 312; V) ff. 175 (v); VI) ff. 387 (xx); VII) ff. 286 (lxiv); VIII) ff. 258 (xxxiv); IX) ff. (viii) 311 (xlix); X) ff. 127 (xxi); XI) FIRST EDITION, ff. (vi) 469; XII) (x) 144. Italic letter, occasional Roman. Printer s device to titlepages and a few last ll., edges speckled red. A little very light age yellowing, very slight marginal foxing, t-p and last ll. occasionally minimally soiled, a few faint water stains in vols II, III, V, VIII and XII, occasional light browning in vols V, VIII, X, minor marginal repair in vol. VI and to t-p and first fol. in vol. XI, a couple of minor ink marks affecting letters in vols IV, V, and XI, last few ll. with loss to blank upper outer corner in vol. XII. A fine set of very good, crisp, generally well-margined copies most in C18 calf, marbled eps, gilt triple-ruled borders, gilt rosettes to each corner, gilt inner dentelles, spine richly gilt, edges speckled red. Vol. XII in early ¼ calf, marbled boards, vols. V and VI in matching early C19 calf gilt, vol. XI in near matching, spine slightly less gilt. Labels of the Society of Jesus, William O Brien dated 1899, and Milltown Park library on most pastedowns, C19 bibliographical note to second fep in vol. I, early autograph Pauli Terhaarij Amstelodamae [the C17 Dutch humanist Paul Ter Haar] to t-p in vol. 7, the odd early annotation to vols V and XII. Silk bookmarks. The gilt fleurs-de-lis on the spine of vols 1-4 and 6-9 closely resemble a tool used by N.-D. Derome between the late C18 and early C19 in France. Barber, Printed Books and Bookbindings , FL34 (544, 734). Lovely set, rarely found together, of the massive corpus of Cicero s judicial, political, rhetorical, philosophical and epistolary works (including two commentaries by Paolo Manutius), the eleventh volume being a FIRST EDITION and the fifth very rare. One of the most influential figures of classical antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer. An increasingly prominent public figure as quaestor and consul during the rule of Sulla and Julius Caesar, he put his legal skills to the service of politics with speeches, like those against Catiline and Mark Anthony, which became landmarks of forensic oratory. Defined by Quintilian as eloquence itself , his copious prose production occupied a fundamental place in medieval syllabi, especially De inventione and Rhetorica ad Herennium . Subsequent to the rediscovery of further texts, including the letters, by scholars like Petrarch, Cicero contributed to forging the Latin style of the Renaissance and its ideas on political theory (e.g., Republicanism), rhetoric (e.g., the principles of argument, eloquence and invention) and philosophy (e.g., ancient Greco-Roman cults and Stoicism). This set embraces his entire body of work known at the time, comprising judicial and political speeches (grouped in De oratore and Orationum Pars I-III ), rhetoric (also featuring Rhetorica ad Herennium , now considered spurious), philosophy (including De natura deorum , De officiis and De senectute ) and letters ( Epistolae ad Atticum , ad Brutum , ad Familiares and ad Quintum Fratrem ). All but one were printed by Paolo Manutius in Venice between 1547 and 1563, including the uncommon editions of Orationum Pars I-II (vols 3 and 4) and Epistolae Familiares (vol. 9); the rare Orationum Pars III (vol. 5) was produced in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Torresani in 1519. Vols 11 and 12 contain Manutius s commentaries with emendations to the epistles ad Atticum , ad Brutum and ad Quintum . Bibliography and references available upon request.

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• Titre: [Opera.]
• Éditeur: I-IV) and VI-XII) Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1547-1563; V) Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Torresani, 1519
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine