De Consolatione Philosophiae Libri V. Ad optimarum Editionum fidem recensiti. Accessere Petri Bertii Praefatio, Boethii Vita a Martiano Rota conscripta, Theodori Pulmanni De metris boethianis libellus, nec non Elpidis, Boethii uxoris, Hymni duo. Editio II

Boezio Anicio Manlio Torquato Severino

Published by Josephus Cominus, Patavii, 1744., 1744

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16°; pp. LXIV-143 on strong paper. Half leather with marbled plates, engraving at frontispiece and at the end. Re-edition of the printing of 1721 with mistakes corrected. Brunet I; Graesse I. It is a masterpiece of the Christian tradition WITH THIS WORK WE SET THE END OF THE CLASSIC WORLD AND THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Boetius wrote it while waiting for his execution in prison, at Pavia, between 523 and 524. Gibbon called it a golden book which could have been written by Plato or Cicero during their leisure time. Graesse, I, 464, note, Brunet, I, 1035. Ex libris Girard and from an extint Jesuit library in Rome with several seals. Seller Inventory # 808

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Title: De Consolatione Philosophiae Libri V. Ad ...

Publisher: Josephus Cominus, Patavii, 1744.

Publication Date: 1744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 2nd Edition.