{"product_id":"1576-history-of-athens-sparta-by-carlo-sigonio-antique-16th-century-folio","title":"1576 HISTORY of ATHENS \u0026 SPARTA by Carlo SIGONIO antique 16th CENTURY FOLIO","description":"\u003cdiv typeof=\"Product\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\"\u003e\u003cspan property=\"description\"\u003e\r\n\u003ccenter\u003e\r\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp style='box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \"gotham ssm a\", \"gotham ssm b\", Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px 0px 11px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial'\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDe antiquo iure populi Romani libri eleven.\u003cbr\u003eDe republica Atheniensium libri IIII. De Atheniensium Laceaemoniorumque temporibus liber I. \u003cbr\u003eIn eosdem rerum \u0026amp; verborum indices copiosi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Carlo SIGONIO ( Caroli Sigonii ) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLutetiae (Paris ): Apud Jacobum Du Puys; \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1576\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003efolio : 8.5 by 13\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(De republica Atheniensium and De Atheniensium et Lacedaemoniorum temporibus the first well-arranged account of the constitution, history, and chronology of Athens and Sparta, with which may be mentioned a similar work on the religious, political, and military system of the Jews (De republica hebreorum).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(20)-677-(35) pages, including 2 folding plates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal full calf, spine with 6 raised bands,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovers decorated with large central gilt medallions, and a gilt fillet in the frame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood copy, fresh interior,  complete with its 2 folding plates, binding worn,  front cover is partially detached\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManuscript ex-libris scratched on title page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText in Latin\u003cbr\u003e===============================\u003cbr\u003eCarolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone) (c. 1524 – 1584) was an Italian humanist, born in Modena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving studied Greek under the learned Franciscus Portus of Candia, he attended the philosophical schools of Bologna and Pavia. In 1545, he was elected professor of Greek in his native place in succession to Portus. In 1552, he was appointed to a professorship at Venice, which he exchanged for the chair of eloquence at Padua in 1560.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this period of his life belongs a quarrel with Robortello, due to the publication by Sigonius of a treatise De nominibus Romanorum, in which he corrected several errors in a work of Robertelli on the same subject. The quarrel was patched up by the intervention of Cardinal Seripando (who purposely stopped on his way to the Council of Trent), but broke out again in 1562, when the two rivals found themselves colleagues at Padua. Sigonius, who was of a peaceful disposition, thereupon accepted (in 1563) a call to Bologna. He died in a country house purchased by him in the neighbourhood of Modena, in August 1584. \u003cbr\u003eThe last year of his life was embittered by another literary dispute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1583, Sigonius edited a manuscript purported to be the long-sought Consolatio by Cicero, written as a distraction from his grief at the death of his daughter Tullia. Published in Venice, it was based on a book found by an obscure bookseller, named Vianelli. Sigonius declared that, if not genuine, it was at least worthy of Cicero; those who held the opposite view (Antonio Riccoboni, Justus Lipsius, and others) asserted that Sigonius himself had written it with the object of deceiving the learned world, a charge which he explicitly denied. 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