Author: BOETHIUS. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boethii:
Title: De Consolatione Philosophiae, Lib V. Cum Castigationibus Theodori Pulmann, Epicteti Stoici Enchridion ex Graeco ab Angelo Politiano in Latinum conversum.
Description: Lugduni, Apud Alexandrum Marsilium, 1581. Small 8vo, 107 c 70 mms., foliated, 118 leaves, contemporary sheepskin, all edges gilt; binding a bit worn, front end-papers wormed, no rear paste-down end-paper, rear hinge cracked and open. The classics textual critic Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) is often identified as an important scholar who was instrumental in taking classical scholarship out of its medieval indulgences and into the Renaisance. And his scholarly achievements were recognized and valorized by the powerful Medici family. Wikipedia asserts that "Poliziano was well known as a scholar, a professor, a critic, and a Latin poet in an age when the classics were still studied with assimilative curiosity, and not with the scientific industry of a later period. He was the representative of that age of scholarship in which students drew their ideal of life from antiquity. He was also known as an Italian poet, a contemporary of Ariosto...." Anthony Grafton writes that Poliziano's 'conscious adoption of a new standard of accuracy and precision' enabled him 'to prove that his scholarship was something new, something distinctly better than that of the previous generation.' And, as obituaries in The Times euphemistically observed in decades past, he never married. Baudrier II, 167-168; BM (STC) 73; Index aurel. 121.133. OCLC locates copies in European libraries, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Universitaatsbibliothek Eichstatt, Mannheim, and Biblioteca Nationale Centrale di Roma. Copies in the United States in George Washinton University, Harvard, Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Oklahoma.

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