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Anicius Manlius Severinus BOECE De consolatione philosophiae libri V

Anicius Manlius Severinus BOECE

De consolatione philosophiae libri V

Excudebat Josephus Cominus, Patavii (Padoue) 1721, in-8 (11x17,2cm), lxiv 143pp., relié.


New edition. A title vignette, weapons of Padua on the back of last feuillet.Plein vellum rigid time. Smooth spine with title pen. Good copy, although frais.Oeuvre in verse and prose, De consolatione is not only the most important work of Boece but the most important philosophical works of the Roman world. Composed in 524 this work is both Platonic and Christian: Philosophy, personified by a woman, converts the prisoner Boethius to the Platonic notion of the sovereign good. During the medieval contemporary, it was the most read book after the Bible. Boethius has contributed significantly to the transmission of Aristotelian and Platonic thought. Preface by Peter Bert; life Martiano Rota.Ex libris weapons twentieth Robert Garrison. A red stamp title page: Municipal Library Montauban. Another Italian stamp with unidentified weapons. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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