MAXIMUS TYRIUS

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MAXIMUS TYRIUS
[Graece] Sermones sive disputationes XLI. [By Henri Estienne]. [Bound with:] Sermones sive disputationes XLI [Translated into Latin by Cosimo Pazzi]. No place [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1544. In-8 (165 x 106 mm) 4 ff.n.ch., 263 pp. (misquoted 363); 8 ff.n.ch., 320 pp. Brown calf, gilt fillet and cold roulette framing the boards, spine with false nerves, marbled edges (19th century French binding). Renouard, Estienne, 161:2; Schreiber, 141a-b; Adams, M-939 & M-940; Graesse, IV, 453. Editio princeps of the 41 dissertations on ethics, theology and other subjects of philosophy, written by the Platonist Tyrius, known to have been the teacher of Marcus Aurelius. "These lectures were eloquent exhortations to virtue, filled with quotations chiefly from Plato and Homer, their philosophical content deriving from Platonism and Cynicism... To accompany his editio princeps Henri Estienne published the Latin version by Archbishop Cosimo Pazzi of Florence" (Schreiber).
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