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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480?-524?). Di consolatione philosophica uolgare. Venice: Marrchio Sessa, December 1531.
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480?-524?). Di consolatione philosophica uolgare. Venice: Marrchio Sessa, December 1531.
8o (150 x 94 mm). Title and B1r within a typographical border, a few woodcut initials, one historiated. Late 17th/early 18th-century green goatskin, coat of arms in gilt at center of each cover. Provenance: F. Renard (bookplate); Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate).
Third edition in Italian, translated by Anselmo Tanzo, of the great sixth century Roman's most important work, De consolatione philosophiae, translated by Alfred the Great into Anglo-Saxon and by Chaucer into English. Versions of it appeared in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Greek before the end of the fifteenth century. Gibbon wrote of it as "a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." NUC locates only the copies at Harvard, Yale and the University of Missouri. Adams B-2297; Censimento B2695.
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Third edition in Italian, translated by Anselmo Tanzo, of the great sixth century Roman's most important work, De consolatione philosophiae, translated by Alfred the Great into Anglo-Saxon and by Chaucer into English. Versions of it appeared in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Greek before the end of the fifteenth century. Gibbon wrote of it as "a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." NUC locates only the copies at Harvard, Yale and the University of Missouri. Adams B-2297; Censimento B2695.