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Legatura - Plutarco

Some moral pamphlets of Plutarch translated by Marcellus Hadrian the Younger, 1823

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Brescia, from the Foresti e Cristiani press, 1823. In 12°. Splendid romantic binding in long-grain red morocco with frames on the boards finely decorated with geometric and figurative motifs, spine decorated with gilt motifs, gilt title, gilt edges.

Specialist Notes

"Marcello Adriani the Younger, who translated Plutarch's Opuscles of Morality towards the end of the 16th century, held a chair of humanity in Florence. (...) This translation of his earned the praise of everyone who had it in his hands, for the happiness and accuracy with which the original was turned, for the purity of the dictation, and for the noble and elegant simplicity of his frank and naive style. (...)" (from the Letter to the Courteous Reader, p.7).

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