Thucydides, De bello Peloponnesiaco Libri VIII, translated from Greek into Latin by Lorenzo Valla

Thucydides

Verlag: Henri Estienne, 1588

Beschreibung

In good condition. Modern black calf leather has preserved this work nicely. Reader can feel at ease while utilizing it. Very sturdy binding. One may wish to add a spine label for decorative effect. Front title page ownership dating to 1657 amongst other old hand owner s names. Torn/previously repaired title page. Stephanus is underlined in orange colored pencil. Water staining throughout, mostly on bottom right hand corner. Does not affect text negatively. A few notations in old hand. Appropriately toned and foxed throughout. A beautifully made book. as to be expected by the Estienne House. Wide margins. Overall, given that this book is over 430 years old, we feel that it quite well-preserved. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. The improved second edition, generally considered the best 16th-century edition of the greatest historian of Athens For this new edition Estienne has corrected the Greek text and scholia, as well as further revised Valla s Latin translation, which is now printed on the same page with the Greek text, in parallel columns, while the Greek scholia are printed at the foot of the page. Woodcut Noli album sapere Estienne device on title. Lorenzo Valla was on of the most important humanists of his time. In his Elegantiae linguae Latinae , an advanced handbook of Latin language and style, he gave the humanist program some of its most trenchant and combative formulations, bring the study of Latin to an unprecedented level. He made numerous contributions to classical scholarship. He famously exposed the Donation of Constantine, and important document justifying the papacy s claims to temporal rule, as a forgery. He compared, for the first time, St. Jerome s translation of the Bible with the Greek text of the New Testament, thereby laying the foundations of critical bible scholarship. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREF1588ATZB

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Thucydides, De bello Peloponnesiaco Libri ...

Verlag: Henri Estienne

Erscheinungsdatum: 1588

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 2nd Edition