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1567 COMOEDIAE SEX by TERENCE ILLUSTRATED VELLUM BINDING ANTIQUE 16th CENTURY
1567 COMOEDIAE SEX by TERENCE ILLUSTRATED VELLUM BINDING ANTIQUE 16th CENTURY
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Cum absolutis commentariis Aelii Donatii, Guidonis Iuuenalis Cenomani, Petri Marsi in omnes fabulas, Ioannis Calphurnij Brixiensis in Heautontimorumenon.
by Terentius Afer, Publius
Venedig, Johannes Maria Bonellus, 1567
THE COLLECTION OF COMEDY PLAYS BY THE ANCIENT ROMAN PLAYRIGHT P TERENTII, COMMONLY KNOWN AS TERRENCE.
The plays deal with themes of parenting problems, marital issues and love entanglements.
Illustrated.
14 lvs., 207 numbered leaves
Bookblock is partially detached from the binding, as visible on the photo
Folio. Size 8.5 by 12" (31 x 20.5 cm.)
Limp vellum. Damaged spine, repaired using old vellum.
Marginal dampstains, some foxing, with period manuscript notes, leaf 24 with ink spot as visible on the photo (small loss of text).
Rare
LATIN TEXT
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Publius Terentius Afer (c.?195/185 – c.?159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic.
His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC.
Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease.
He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.
One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos
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