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PLUTARCHUS (ca. 46-ca. 120)

Plutarchi. De tranquillitate & securitate animi. Lib. I. De fortuna Romanorum ex Plutarcho. Lib. I. De fortuna vel virtute Alexandri. Lib. II. Basilii magni epistola de vita per solitudinem transigenda. Colophon: Impressum Romae per Iacobum Mazochium, Romanae academiae bibliopolam, M.D.X. die. xxii. Febr.

Giacomo Mazzocchi, 22 February 1510

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Year of publication
22 February 1510
Place of printing
Roma
Author
PLUTARCHUS (ca. 46-ca. 120)
Publishers
Giacomo Mazzocchi
Keyword
Quattro-Cinquecento
State of preservation
Good
Languages
Italian
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Used

Description

4to (205x138 mm). [56] leaves. Collation: A-C8 D-L4. Title page within a woodcut architectural border. Colophon at l. L4v. Later vellum. Light damp staining throughout. Copy bearing several marginal annotations in a contemporary ink (a few slightly trimmed).
The edition, dedicated by the publisher Giacomo Mazzocchi to Sigismondo Conti secretary to Pope Julius II, contains three texts from Plutarch's Moralia (De tranquillitate animi, De fortuna romanorum, and De Alexandri Magni fortuna aut virtute) in the Latin version by Guillaume Budé (1467-1540). The work by Basilius Caesariensis announced in the title is not actually present in the edition.
Edit 16, CNCE53648; Sander, 5779, Ascarelli, no. 26; Hoffmann, III, p. 201.
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