M. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus (4 Ergebnisse)

4to. (VIII),920,(51 index),(1 blank) p. Overlapping vellum. 24 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,765; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,18; Moss 2,461; Ebert 17188: 'Bloss Nachdruck der Lambinischen Ausgabe'; cf. GLN-3810) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Title with broad woodcut architectural borders. Woodcut headpieces. Woodcut initials. At the end 2 indices, one 'verborum, locutionum & sententiarum', the other on the commentary of Lambinus) (Condition: Vellum age-toned & soiled. On the titlepage the place of printing: 'Coloniae Allobrogum' (Latin name of Geneva) has been made illegible with ink, and was replaced by 'Genevae', 'at Geneva'. Why this was done is not clear. Some slight foxing. Right lower corner faintly waterstained. Some old ink underlinings) (Note: The 21 surviving comedies of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, ca. 254-184 B.C., have never been out of fashion since the publication of the 'editio princeps' in 1472. Plautus' influence on world literature is huge. The comedies feature stock situations and characters from everyday life. 'Plautine comedy is inventive, exuberant, varied, full of rollicking eavesdropping scenes, lyrical meters, slapstick, and verbal fireworks.' Early editors, commentators and translators ransacked the plays for rhetorical and moral examples. Ever since the first post-classical performances at the end of the 15th century Plautus never left the stage. The Italian 'commedia erudita' and the popular improvisatory 'commedia dell'arte' developed through imitations of the Roman New Comedy. Probably best known is Carlo Goldoni's adaptation of the Menaechmi (1748) 'I duo gemelli veneziani' (The Venetian Twins). Spain saw the development of 'comedias elegíacas', Latin verse that incorporated Plautine passages into dialogue. Authors like Calderón adopted many New Comedy stage conventions to Spanish taste. In Germany the great dramatist Andreas Gryphius adapted the Miles Gloriosus. And in France Molière, the greatest comic playwright of his age, imitated Plautus in his Amphitryon and in l'Avare. English playwrights like Ben Johnson and Shakespeare reworked plays of Plautus. 'Plautine comedy provided Shakespeare with character and action throughout his career, beginning with direct imitation of the Menaechmi with the Comedy of Errors'. A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, they all adapt themes, situations and persons of Plautus. During the Golden Age of the Netherlands P.C. Hooft wrote Warenar (1617), an adaptation of Plautus' Aulularia. Plautus enjoyes also a new modern life on the screen. Rodgers and Hart created the music for the Boys from Syracuse (1938). Big Business (1988), inspired by the Menaechmi, tells the story of 2 sets of female twins (Bette Midler & Lily Tomlin) separated at birth. Pseudolus and Miles Gloriosus can be found in the hilarious musical and film A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum (1962) (Source of the quotations: The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, s.v. Plautus) § The French scholar Dionysius Lambinus, 1520-1572, earned his fame in the field of Latin scholarship with his masterly editions of Horace (1561), Lucretius (1564) and Cicero (1566). He was Professor Regius of Greek at the Collège de France from 1561 till his death. The 19th century English editor and commentator of Lucretius H.A.J. Munro ranks him as one of the best scholars of his time. He says that 'The quickness of his intellect united with his exquisite knowledge of the language gave him great power in the field of conjecture, and for nearly 3 centuries his remained the standard text'. (Munro, DRN, 4th ed., vol. 1 p.14/15). Lambinus' 'reading was as vast as accurate, and its results are given in a style of unsurpassed clearness and beauty', Munro adds. In 1576/77, 4/5 years after his death appeared at last his edition of the comedies written by the Roman playwright Plautus, 250-184 B.C. It is his last great work, in which he showed great critical learning and ability to discover hidden meanings and innuendo. Lambinus fell ill, exhausted by the weight of his studies, and had only time to complete 13 of the 21 plays. This is told in an address to the reader by Iacobus Helias, or Jacques Hélias, or Jacques Hélie, who was the successor of Lambinus as Regius professor of Greek literature from 1572 till 1590, and who completed the work of his colleague. The difficulties, Helias says, in collating manuscripts, mending the text of Plautus, and writing a commentary are enormous. The text is corrupt, and deformed by mistakes and there is a host of different readings, caused by the ignorance and negligence of later generations. Helias lists the humanist scholars who shared with Lambinus their observations on difficult places, not forgetting himself. Lambinus had not left his work on Plautus ready to print. Helias completed the work partly by transcribing what remained of the observations of Lambinus on the subsequent comedies. He complemented what was left open, and supplied and corrected many quotations. Sometimes he had to work out what Lambinus had only sketched. Finally Helias added 2 indices, one for the text of Plautus, and the other for the commentary. Lambinus collated for his edition a number of manuscripts and collected many passages from the ancient grammarians. This is how Lambinus' Plautus is valued in modern scholarship: 'Many valuable emendations go back to Denis Lambin (.); his later comments reveal that he had lost energy and acumen due to his ailments'. (Plautus, Vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library no. 60, Cambr. Mass. 2011, p. CXIV) Lambinus' successor Helias left no trace in the history of scholarship, except for completing the Plautus edition of his colleague. Our edition of 1622, produced by Chouët, is a reissue of the important edition of 1576/77) (Collation: 4, A-Z8; Aa-Zz8, AA-KK8, LL4, MM-PP8, QQ2 (leaf QQ2 verso blank)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping co.

4to. (VIII),920,(51 index)(1 blank) p. Calf 25 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,765; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,18; Moss 2,461; Ebert 17188; cf. GLN 15-16 no. 3810; cf. Dibdin 2,310/11; Graesse 5,328; Ebert 17188) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Gilt letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards blindtooled. Title with woodcut architectural borders. Occasional woodcut headpieces and initials) (Condition: Binding very scuffed, that is: hinges cracked, head & tail of the spine chafed, back rubbed, boards scratched, corners bumped, outer edge of upper board abraded. Paper age-toned, occasionally foxed. Small inscription on the front flyleaf) (Note: The French scholar Denys Lambin, Dionysius Lambinus in Latin, 1520-1572, earned his fame in the field of Latin scholarship with his great editions of Horace (1561), Lucretius (1564) and Cicero (1566). He was 'Professor Regius' of Greek at the 'Collège de France' from 1561 till his death. The 19th century English editor and commentator of Lucretius H.A.J. Munro ranks him as one of the best scholars of his time. He says that 'The quickness of his intellect united with his exquisite knowledge of the language gave him great power in the field of conjecture, and for nearly 3 centuries his remained the standard text'. (Munro, DRN, 4th ed., vol. 1 p.14/15). Lambinus' 'reading was as vast as accurate, and its results are given in a style of unsurpassed clearness and beauty', Munro adds. In 1576/77, 4/5 years after his death appeared at last his edition of the comedies written by the Roman playwright Plautus, 250-184 B.C. It is his last great work, in which he showed great critical learning and ability to discover hidden meanings and innuendo. He fell ill, exhausted by the weight of his studies, and had only time to complete 13 of the 21 plays. This is told in an address to the reader by Iacobus Helias, or Jacques Hélias, or Jacques Hélie, who was the successor of Lambinus as 'Regius professor' of Greek literature from 1572 till 1590, and who completed the work of his colleague. The difficulties, Helias says, in collating manuscripts, mending the text of Plautus, and writing a commentary are enormous. The text is corrupt, and deformed by mistakes and there is a host of different readings, caused by the ignorance and negligence of later generations. Helias lists the humanist scholars who shared with Lambinus their observations on difficult places, not forgetting himself. Lambinus had not left his work on Plautus ready to print. Helias completed the work partly by transcribing what remained of the observations of Lambinus on the subsequent comedies. He complemented what was left open, and supplied and corrected many quotations. Sometimes he had to work out what Lambinus had only sketched. Finally Helias added 2 indices, one for the text of Plautus, and the other for the commentary. Lambinus collated for his edition a number of manuscripts and collected many passages from the ancient grammarians. This is how Lambinus' Plautus is valued in modern scholarship: 'Many valuable emendations go back to Denis Lambin (.); his later comments reveal that he had lost energy and acumen due to his ailments'. (Plautus, Vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library no. 60, Cambr. Mass. 2011, p. CXIV). Lambinus' successor Helias left no trace in the history of scholarship, except for completing the work of his colleague. This edition of 1622, produced by Chouët, is a reissue of this important edition of 1576/77. (Provenance: Written on the front flyleaf: 'Sum H. S.s J.U. doctoris, anno 1642'. Who the 'juris utriusque doctor' was who acquired this book in 1642 we cannot decipher; he was probably a Dutchman or someone from the Rhine valley, for the same hand wrote at the top of the same page: 'Emptus quatuor florinos'. § In another hand: 'Ex Biblioth. V. Ampl. J. van Buuren') (Collation: q4, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, AA-KK8, LL4, MM-PP8, QQ2 (leaf QQ2 verso blank)) (Photographs on request) 2000 gr.

Copertina rigida. Zustand: discrete. Testo latino. Cm.35x22. Pg.(8), 792, (56). Legatura in piena pelle coeva con titoli e fregi decorativi impressi in oro al dorso. Esemplare da studio, con evidentissime tracce d'uso. La coperta presenta marcate abrasioni alle cerniere e ai capitelli. Bruniture diffuse. I margini delle prime e delle ultime carte sono interessati da vistose abrasioni da umidità, con mancanze sfrangiate, e da lavori di tarlo, senza peraltro inficiare la fruibilità del testo. Cartigli e capilettera incisi. Al frontespizio marca tipografica raffigurante un serpente tra le fiamme che morde una mano divina, con il motto "Neque mors, neque venenum". Pubblicata la prima volta nel 1576, la versione del Lambino delle 20 commedie di Plauto, con ricchissimo apparato di commentari e note, è opera rara. Il presente testo ne costituisce una contraffazione assai stimata, al pari di quella pubblicata nello stesso anno a Lione. Tito Maccio Plauto (Sarsina, tra il 255 e il 250 a.C. ? 184 a.C.) fu uno dei principali commediografi romani, esponente del genere teatrale della "Palliata" promosso da Livio Andronico, innovatore della letteratura latina. Assai popolare ai tempi di Cicerone, ebbe straordinaria capacità di rappresentare i caratteri umani, attingendo spesso alla letteratura classica greca. Dionisio Lambino, nome italianizzato di Denis Lambin (Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1516?1572) fu un apprezzato filologo. Compiuti gli studi ad Amiens ed a Tolosa, passò nel 1550 al servizio del Cardinale De Tournon, con cui compì numerosi viaggi in Italia, segnatamente a Roma, Lucca e Venezia, ove tradusse dal greco in latino l'"Etica Nicomachea" di Aristotele. Tradusse poi Orazio, Lucrezio, Cicerone, Cornelio nepote e, appunto, Plauto. La prima edizione a stampa delle commedie plautiane risale al 1472, mentre la più diffusa, prima di quella del Lambino, fu quella del Camerarius (1552). > Adams, II, 1503. Graesse, V, 328, "Contrefaçon très correcte". Brunet, IV, 708. 2050 gr.

Copertina rigida. Zustand: discrete. Testo latino. Cm.33,5x20,7. Pg.(8), 792, (56). Legatura in mz.pelle con piatti marmorizzati. Tassello con titoli e fregi in oro al dorso a quattro nervature. Un bollino cartaceo applicato al piatto anteriore. Al frontespizio marca tipografica raffigurante un serpente tra le fiamme che morde un mano divina, con il motto "Neque mors, neque venenum". Cartigli e capilettera incisi. Pubblicata la prima volta l'anno precedente, nel 1576, la versione del Lambino delle 20 commedie di Plauto, con ricchissimo apparato di commentari e note, è opera di grande rarità. Il presente testo ne costituisce una contraffazione assai stimata, al pari di quella pubblicata nello stesso anno a Lione. Tito Maccio Plauto (Sarsina, tra il 255 e il 250 a.C. ? 184 a.C.) fu uno dei principali commediografi romani, esponente del genere teatrale della "Palliata" promosso da Livio Andronico, innovatore della letteratura latina. Assai popolare ai tempi di Cicerone, ebbe straordinaria capacità di rappresentare i caratteri umani, attingendo spesso alla letteratura classica greca. Dionisio Lambino, nome italianizzato di Denis Lambin (Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1516?1572) fu un apprezzato filologo. Compiuti gli studi ad Amiens ed a Tolosa, passò nel 1550 al servizio del Cardinale De Tournon, con cui compì numerosi viaggi in Italia, segnatamente a Roma, Lucca e Venezia, ove tradusse dal greco in latino l'"Etica Nicomachea" di Aristotele. Tradusse poi Orazio, Lucrezio, Cicerone, Cornelio nepote e, appunto, Plauto. La prima edizione a stampa delle commedie plautiane risale al 1472, mentre la più diffusa, prima di quella del Lambino, fu quella del Camerarius (1552). > Graesse, V, 328, "Contrefaçon très correcte". Brunet, IV, 708. Adams, I, P/1502. 2050 gr.