1555 ROMAN HISTORY by APPIAN antique Historia delle guerre esterne de romani

Historia delle guerre esterne de romani.

Venice, De Farri ;  1555

277, 190 leaves.


19th century half leather, spine decorated in gilt

Late manuscript with back title (heavily damaged, edges scraped, chapter with minor blemishes). - Interior pages chipped, browned, stained in places. Title with handwritten annotations.

Good condition, some toning, occasional spots

Size about 4 by 6 1/4 inches


Text in Italian
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Appian of Alexandria (Latin: Appianus Alexandrinus; c.?95 – c.?AD 165) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.

He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the senior offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci, an important official of the imperial treasury).
It was in 147 at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, an influential rhetorician and advocate. Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the "knightly" class), his possession of this office tells us about Appian's family background.

His principal surviving work known in Latin as Historia Romana and in English as Roman History) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. This work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments.
The work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.

The Civil Wars, books 13–17 of the Roman History, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. Despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the Roman History are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of Roman history. The other extant work of Appian is his "The Foreign Wars", which includes an ethnographic style history recounting the various military conflicts against a foreign enemy in Roman history, until the time of Appian.
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