PLUTARQUE, Jacques AMYOT (trans.)
Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français, reveues & corrigées en plusieurs passages par le translateur
Pour Samuel Crespin|à Cologni [Cologne] 1614|38 x 25 cm|relié
The first edition of Amyot's translation dates from 1572 published by Michel de Vascosan in Paris.
Contemporary full calf binding, spine with six raised bands, 6 fleurons, double fillet frame on boards.
Jacques Amyot (1513-1594), was tutor to the sons of Henri II (future Charles IX and Henri III), he was also professor at the University of Bourges and became grand almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre, which he made an important center of humanism. It was on the recommendation of François I that he translated Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. This work, and subsequently the moral works, had and would have considerable impact, not only for the rediscovery of antiquity (which th
Contemporary full calf binding, spine with six raised bands, 6 fleurons, double fillet frame on boards.
Jacques Amyot (1513-1594), was tutor to the sons of Henri II (future Charles IX and Henri III), he was also professor at the University of Bourges and became grand almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre, which he made an important center of humanism. It was on the recommendation of François I that he translated Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. This work, and subsequently the moral works, had and would have considerable impact, not only for the rediscovery of antiquity (which th
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