Thucydide — marelibri

Thucydide — marelibri

THUCYDIDES and Francesco di Soldo STROZZI (translator).Biblio.com

Delle guerre fatte tra popoli della Morea et gli Atheniesi nuovamente dal Greco idioma nella lingua Thoscana con ogni diligenza tradotto per Francesco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino. L'annotatione & dichiaratione di tutti i luoghi difficili con la tavola copiosissima di tutte le guerre le paci gli accordi le triegue le leghe le battaglie navali le giornate le citta prese i por tenti accaduti i pronostichi fatti i luoghi spianati arsi & distrutti che nell'historia si contengono: posti tutti per ordine dell'alphabeto.

1550réf. 16998Venice: Laocoonte 1550. Contemporary Italian gold-tooled brown morocco with the author lettered in gold on the spine within an ornamental border a paneled design with two ornamental borders on both boards corner pieces in the inner panel gilt edges. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device depicting the Laocoön Group on the title page and final leaf and several historiated woodcut initials in the text. First Italian translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War one of the earliest scholarly works of history produced in the Western world. Unlike its predecessors it not only recorded the events of the war year by year in chronological order but also intended to provide an accurate factual account of events relying on eyewitness testimony and primary sources rather than legend or divine explanation. In addition the work also set out to examine underlying causes of war making it not just a record of events but also an important study of human nature and international relations.Francesco di Soldo Strozzi 16th century a Florentine nobleman and secretary to the Roman ambassador of Emperor Maximilian was a translator from both Greek and Latin. The present work which he translated from the original Greek is his most well-known. His translation was first published by Vincenzo Valgrisi at Venice in 1545 and another undated edition was printed by Baldassarre Constantini ca. 1545 which is identical to the present edition except for the type. Reflecting the growing Humanist interest in ancient Greek texts the History was first printed in Latin in 1483 by Johannes Vercellensis followed by the landmark Greek edition of Aldus Manutius in 1502. Translations into the European vernaculars soon followed: French Claude de Seyssel 1527 Italian Strozzi 1545 English Thomas Nicholls 1550 and Spanish Diego Gracián 1564. Strozzis translation is thus part of the earliest wave of vernacular translations making Thucydides' work accessible to a wider audience for the first time.With the library label of "S.A.R. il Duca di Genova" mounted on the front pastedown and a red library stamp in the margins of leaf 17 and 70. The binding is in excellent condition with only a few minor wormholes. The leaves are very slightly browned with occasional brown stains in the lower margin the lower margin of the title page has been professionally restored with loss of the imprint "M.D.L. In Vinetia" the lower margin of several other leaves has been restored without loss of text. Otherwise in good condition.l BMC STC Italian p. 672; EDIT16 40470; Mortimer Italian 499; OPAC SBN BVEE010161; USTC 859008; cf. Adams T-684 other ed.; Gamba 1714 other ed.; PMM 102 Latin ed. Estienne 1588. Laocoonte, hardcover

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