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Lyonnaise edition of this work produced by Ioannes Bernartius in 1593. Italic printing. A first part gathers the three major works of Statius and a second with its own title page the commentaries and notes of various scholars.
Contemporary limp vellum binding with flaps. Author's name in pen on spine. Traces of ties. 2 lacks to title page, in upper margin, on each side of the page. A pale dampstain running through half the work, in lower margin.
The edition brings together the three known poetic works of Statius: the Thebaid recounting the story of Oedipus's sons confronting each other for the kingdom of Thebes (a famous and often treated theme); the Silvae, a collection of poems, and the Achilleid, which tells in several episodes the story of Achilles, and which remained unfinished. Statius was in the first century of his era a highly appreciated poet, his posterity marked by his appearance in Dante's Divine Comedy, where he appears as a guide in purgatory.