1584 ARISTOTLE COMMENTARIES by Pietro Vettori antique 16th CENTURY FOLIO vellum

Aristotele / Vettori, Pietro

Commentaries in X libros Aristotelis

Florence, Ex officina Iunctarum; 1584


 folio: 9 by 13"

Printer's device on the title page, portrait of the author on the reverse of the title page within an oval,
woodcut initials, vignette with a view of Florence at the beginning of each chapter,
minor toning,  some faded dampstains on the last few leaves, small defects on the lower corner of the last two leaves,

Original limp vellum binding with manuscript title on the spine

616 pages plus extensive Index

Text in Latin

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Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics by the humanist and philologist Pietro Vettori (Florence, 1499-1585).
Vettori was a public reader of Greek and Latin eloquence from 1538 to 1583.
An opponent of the Medici, he wrote commentaries on classical authors including: Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Xenophon, Terence, Cicero, Sallust, Demetrius Phalereus.

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