1574 PLUTARCH Moralia Athens Stoicism Plato Nature Phenomena RARE Stoic Amyot

1574 PLUTARCH Moralia Athens Stoicism Plato Nature Phenomena RARE Stoic Amyot

 

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

― Plutarch

 

Plutarch was one of the most iconic 1^st-century philosophers, best known for his ‘Parallel Lives’. Also known as ‘Plutarch’s Lives’, this work is one of the most important and comprehensive collection of biographies of famous Greek and Roman figures. The other surviving work of Plutarch was ‘Moralia’ – a collection of seventy-eight various essays and transcribed speeches each of which provide an understanding of Roman and Greek life in the 1^st-century AD.

 

Notable treatises found in Plutarch’s ‘Moralia’ include:

• “The Lives of Ten Orators”
• “Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander”
• “On the Athenians”
• “Platonic Questions”
• “Causes of Natural Phenomena”
• “On Stoic Contradictions”
• “On Common Conceptions against the Stoics”

 

This volume from the impressive 1574 Amyot French edition of ‘Moralia’ was published in Paris by Michel de Vascosan

 

Item number: #24404

Price: $750

 

PLUTARCH

 

Les oeuvres morales de Plutarque : translatees de Grec en Franc̦ois, reueuës et corrigees

 

A Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1574.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • [2], 341-624 (i.e., 594) leaves
  • Pagination errors expected
• References: USTC 1574
• Provenance: Handwritten – [Madame la Marquise de le Cesnelay]
  • Possibly Catherine de Goyon (1662–1699), wife of Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis of Seignelay (1651–1690), a French politician and Navy Secretary under Louis XIV. He accompanied Abraham Duquesne at the bombardment of Genoa in May 1684 and completed the Code Noir begun by his father. He was named Minister in 1689. Seignelay continued his father’s work of expanding the French Navy; between 1660 and 1690 the Navy increased under their control from 18 sailing vessels to some 125. Catherine later married Charles de Lorraine (1648–1708), the Count of Marsan, youngest son of the Count of Harcourt, and brother of the Chevalier de Lorraine.
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4.5in (16.5cm x 11cm)

 

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