LUCRETIUS Carus, Titus (c.85 - c.55 B.C.). De rerum natura libri sex. A Dionysio Lambino ... commentariis illustrati. Paris: Guillaume et Philippe Rouillé. 2° (230 x 162mm). Title within a woodcut historiated border, woodcut initials, with the final leaf of errata. (Three library stamps and a deleted ownership inscription on title, several quires lightly browned.) 18th-century vellum (spine slightly defective). Provenance: Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
A handsome edition of Lucretius edited by Denis Lambin (1516-1572), one of the first French philologists of the sixteenth century and, without doubt, one of that century's greatest editors of classical texts, equalled only by Casaubon and Scaliger. His editions of Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Plautus and Cornelius Nepos are far superior to preceding ones and can be regarded as a basis for subsequent critical study of those authors. PMM states: 'The edition here cited was the chef-d'oeuvre of Denis Lambin, the great French classical scholar. Scholarly, yet passionate, his editorial work expresses a deep sympathy for his subject and the prefaces and notes are a monument of erudition and fine vigorous Latinity'. Adams L-1659; PMM 87.
LUCRETIUS Carus, Titus (c.85 - c.55 B.C.). De rerum natura libri sex. A Dionysio Lambino ... commentariis illustrati. Paris: Guillaume et Philippe Rouillé. 2° (230 x 162mm). Title within a woodcut historiated border, woodcut initials, with the final leaf of errata. (Three library stamps and a deleted ownership inscription on title, several quires lightly browned.) 18th-century vellum (spine slightly defective). Provenance: Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
A handsome edition of Lucretius edited by Denis Lambin (1516-1572), one of the first French philologists of the sixteenth century and, without doubt, one of that century's greatest editors of classical texts, equalled only by Casaubon and Scaliger. His editions of Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Plautus and Cornelius Nepos are far superior to preceding ones and can be regarded as a basis for subsequent critical study of those authors. PMM states: 'The edition here cited was the chef-d'oeuvre of Denis Lambin, the great French classical scholar. Scholarly, yet passionate, his editorial work expresses a deep sympathy for his subject and the prefaces and notes are a monument of erudition and fine vigorous Latinity'. Adams L-1659; PMM 87.
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