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Historical Texts in Latin -- Cassiodorus. Opera Omnia Quae Extant, Geneva, sumptibus Petri Chovet, 1650, title in black and red with Chouet's device of Fama on the globe (some dampstains, light spotting), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wood, with metal clasps and owner's initials in gilt on upper cover: 'W.I. L.B.' -- Dictys Cretensis & Dares Phrygius. De Bello et Excidio Trojae, cum interpretatione Annae Dacariae, Amsterdam, apud Georgium Gallet, 1702, 4 parts in one, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, contemporary calf, flat gilt spine [cf. Schweiger II, 332]; and 2 other histories by Eutropius and Pliny. (4)

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Historical Texts in Latin -- Cassiodorus. Opera Omnia Quae Extant, Geneva, sumptibus Petri Chovet, 1650, title in black and red with Chouet's device of Fama on the globe (some dampstains, light spotting), contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wood, with metal clasps and owner's initials in gilt on upper cover: 'W.I. L.B.' -- Dictys Cretensis & Dares Phrygius. De Bello et Excidio Trojae, cum interpretatione Annae Dacariae, Amsterdam, apud Georgium Gallet, 1702, 4 parts in one, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, contemporary calf, flat gilt spine [cf. Schweiger II, 332]; and 2 other histories by Eutropius and Pliny. (4)

拍品专文

Gothic and Roman history found a major historian in Magnus Aurelius Cassidorus Senator (c.480-575) who died at the age of 95 in the monastery he founded at Vivarium in Southern Italy. The works ascribed to Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian became the chief source of the Trojan romances of the Middle Ages.