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| c 1482 Plutarch Incunable / Italian Incunabula ROME Sulla Eumenes Sertorius Cimon Lucullus Nicias Crassus This is a wonderful and rare offering of the following work written in Italian. Please note that due to the fragmentary nature of this offering I cannot verify the dating of this book. The previous owner believed the fragment to be the 1482 edition below: Main author: Plutarch. Title details: Vitae parallelae : Thesei, Romuli, Lycurgi, Numae, Themistoclis, Camilli, Hannibalis, Scipionis, Timoleonis, Aemilii Pauli, Pyrri, Lysandris, Scillae, Eumenis, Sertorii, Cimonis, Luculli, Niciae, Crassi, Agesilai, Pompeii, Alexandri, Caesaris, Phocionis, Catonis / Plutarchus ; traduzione italiana di Battista Alessandro Jaconello. [ Lives. Italian ] Published: uncertain due to fragmentary nature of this offering; previous owner believed the fragment to be 1482 edition, but I am not certain and cannot verify the dating of this offering Language: Italian Contents: Fragment contains the biographies of Sulla / Eumenes / Sertorius / Cimon / Lucullus / Nicias / Crassus This is a wonderful volume with fantastic contents and would make a great addition to any collection. I have recently been so pleased by hearing how much my books have been delightful gifts for others. Therefore, I encourage you to think ahead…Anniversary, Birthday, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, or any other special occasion! As a book lover there is not much I would rather receive as a gift. This is one of several such works I am listing, so be sure to check out my other listings. I have included a biography at the end of the listing for those interested. FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Wear: essentially free from wear as seen in the photos; BEAUTIFUL antique leather binding professionally bound by the hand of a very skilled bookbinder; see photos Binding: tight and secure leather binding Pages: Fragment contains the biographies of Lycurgus of Sparta, Sulla / Eumenes / Sertorius / Cimon / Lucullus / Nicias / Crassus Publisher: uncertain due to fragmentary nature of this offering; previous owner believed the fragment to be 1482 edition, but I am not certain and cannot verify the dating of this offering Unique features: rare and excellent contents; ~6.75in X 4.75in (17cm x 12cm) Please understand that I am not an expert on every matter of my books, but am only a lover of old books. I have done my best to describe these books based on my current knowledge, but nobody is perfect. I welcome any questions you may have about contents or condition. I know that the pictures do not usually do justice to the books. FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Shipping Note: I always ship very securely in a secure box, well packaged and wrapped, and very quickly (95% of the time within one business day unless we are out for the day). Returns: I very much want the winner to be satisfied and understand that while doing my best to list accurately, nobody is perfect. I will give returns as a full money-back return less the shipping cost and fees from eBay and Paypal if notified promptly and receive items back in exact same condition within 14 days of auction close. Payments: If after 1 week of auction close I still have not received payment and have not been notified by email of arrangements, I reserve the right to offer item to second bidder Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch’s Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st Century. The surviving Parallel Lives (in Greek: Bioi parallèloi), as they are more properly and commonly known, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived. As he explains in the first paragraph of his Life of Alexander, Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character—good or bad—on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of Lives—the Epaminondas–Scipio Africanus—no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar. Contents [hide] 1 Biographies 1.1 Key to abbreviations 2 Chronology of the lives 3 External links [edit] Biographies Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Plutarch Plutarch structured his Lives by alternating lives of famous Greeks (“Grecians”) with those of famous Romans. After such a set of two (and one set of four) lives he generally writes out a comparison of the preceding biographies. The table below links to several on-line English translations of Plutarch’s Lives[1]; see also “Other links” section below. The LacusCurtius site has the complete set; the others are incomplete to varying extents. There are also four paperbacks published by Penguin Books, two with Greek lives, two Roman, rearranged in chronological order, and containing a total of 36 of the lives. [edit] Key to abbreviations D = Dryden Dryden is famous for having lent his name as editor-in-chief to the first complete English translation of Plutarch’s Lives. This 17th century translation is available at The MIT Internet Classics Archive. These translations are linked with D in the table below; those marked (D) in parentheses are incomplete in the HTML version. G = Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg contains several versions of 19th century translations of these Lives, see: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=342 and http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14114 The full text version (TXT) of the English poet, Arthur Hugh Clough’s translation is available (via download) at Gutenberg. These translations are linked with G in the table below. L = LacusCurtius LacusCurtius has the Loeb translation by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1914‑1926) of part of the Moralia and all the Lives; see http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/home.html These translations are linked with L in the table below. P = Perseus Project The Perseus Project has several of the Lives, see: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html The Lives available on the Perseus website are in Greek and English according to the Loeb edition by Bernadotte Perrin; and/or in English according to an abbreviated version of the Thomas North translations[2]. This last edition concentrates on those of the Lives Shakespeare based his plays upon: Thomas North’s translation of most of the Lives, based on a French version published in the 16th century, preceded Dryden’s translation mentioned above. These translations are linked with P in the table below. Greek ——————————————————————————– 1.Theseus D G L P 2.Lycurgus (D) G L 3.Solon D G L P 4.Themistocles D G L P 5.Pericles (D) G L P 6.Alcibiades[3] (D) G L P 7.Timoleon (D) G L 8.Pelopidas D G L 9.Aristides D G L P 10.Philopoemen D G L 11.Pyrrhus (D) G L 12.Lysander D G L P 13.Cimon D G L P 14.Nicias D G L P 15.Eumenes D G L 16.Agesilaus (D) G L 17.Alexander the Great (D) G L P 18.Phocion D G L 19.Agis D L and Cleomenes D L 20.Demosthenes D L 21.Demetrius (D) L 22.Dion (D) L 23.Aratus (D) L and Artaxerxes D L Roman ——————————————————————————– Romulus D G L Numa Pompilius D G L Poplicola DG L Camillus (D) G L Fabius Maximus D G L Coriolanus (D) G L P Aemilius Paulus (D) G L Marcellus D G L Cato the Elder D G L Flamininus D G L Gaius Marius (D) G L Sulla (D) G L Lucullus (D) G L Crassus (D) G L Sertorius D G L Pompey (D) G L Julius Caesar (D) G L P1 P2[4] Cato the Younger (D) G L Tiberius Gracchus D L and Gaius Gracchus D L Cicero (D) L Mark Antony (D) L P Brutus (D) L P Galba D L and Otho D L Comparisons ——————————————————————————– D G L D G L D G L (N/A) D G L D G L D G L D G L G L D G L (N/A) D G L D G L D G L D G L D G L (N/A) (N/A) D L D L D L D L (N/A) Notes 1.^ The last line of the table contains the four “unpaired” lives, as mentioned above. 2.^ The Perseus project also contains a biography of Caesar Augustus appearing in the North translation, but not coming from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: P 3.^ Though the majority of the Parallel Lives were written with the Greek hero (or heroes) placed in the first position followed by the Roman hero, there are three sets of Lives where this order is reversed : Aemilius Paulus-Timoleon, Coriolanus-Alcibiades and Sertorius-Eumenes. 4.^ At the time of composing this table there appears some confusion in the internal linking of the Perseus project webpages, responsible for this split in two references. [edit] Chronology of the lives The following chronology of legendary and historical figures whose biographies appear in the Lives is organized by date of death, as birth dates in antiquity are more often uncertain. All dates are BC except Galba and Otho. Theseus 1234 – 1204 (myth) Romulus 771 – 717 (myth) Numa Pompilius d. 673 (Semi-Legendary) Lycurgus circa 700 – 630 (Semi-Legendary) Solon 638 – 558 Poplicola d. 503 Coriolanus c. 475 Aristides 530 – 468 Themistocles 524- 459 Cimon 510 – 450 Pericles 495 – 429 Artaxerxes d. 424 Nicias 470 – 413 Alcibiades 450 – 404 Lysander d. 395 Camillus 446 – 365 Pelopidas d. 364 Agesilaus 444 – 360 Dion 408 – 354 Timoleon 411 – 337 Alexander the Great 356 – 323 Demosthenes 384 – 322 Phocion 402 – 318 Eumenes 362 – 316 Demetrius d. 283 Pyrrhus 318 – 272 Agis c. 245 Cleomenes d. 219 Aratus 271 – 213 Marcellus 268 – 208 Fabius Maximus 275 – 203 Philopoemen 253 – 183 Flamininus 228 – 174 Aemilius Paulus 229-160 Cato the Elder 234 – 149 Tiberius Gracchus 163 – 132 Gaius Gracchus 154 – 121 Gaius Marius 157 – 86 Sulla 138 – 78 Sertorius b. c. 123 – d. 72 Lucullus 118 – 56 Crassus 115 – 53 Pompey 106 – 48 Cato the Younger 95 – 46 Julius Caesar 100 or 102 – 44 Cicero 106 – 43 Brutus 85 – 42 Mark Antony 83 – 30 Galba 3 BC – 69 AD Otho 32 AD – 69 AD Your browser does not support JavaScript. 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