Santas, Gerasimos XenophonBiblio.com
XENOPHONBiblio.com
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1525ref. 133029Venice: Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano 1525. The Aldine Xenophon First Aldine edition of the collected works of Xenophon including the Anabasis recounting his leadership of the Ten Thousand against the Persian Empire and the Cyropaedia his partly fictionalized biography of Cyrus the Great which became a model for medieval writers of the mirror-for-princes genre. The edition is almost complete with the only absent Xenophon text being the Apology. The edition marks the first printing of Xenophon's De Atheniensium re publica and De vectigalibus alongside the Hellenica which the Aldine press had published in October 1503 and the Agesilao which had previously been erroneously attributed to Plutarch. The text was edited by Aldus's brother-in-law Gian Francesco d'Asola who in his preface makes disparaging comments about the 1516 Filippo Giunta edition showing the rivalry between the two great Venetian printing houses. This edition is universally recognized as superior. Provenance: library of the College of Santa Maria Coronata Pavia ownership inscription "Biblioth. Collegij S. Mariae Coronatae Papiensis" and old small stamp on title page. Folio 306 x 209 mm. Woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf. Complete with blank leaves L8 and a1. Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf spine lettered and tooled in gilt red speckled edges. Some early annotations in margins in Greek. Spine ends and head of front joint repaired with new calf very minor insect damage to rear cover a few instances of light finger-soiling yet contents generally clean and crisp. A very good copy. Adams X4; Ahmanson-Murphy 229; Cataldi Palau 94; Renouard 100.1; STC Italian 738. unknown
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