Plutarchi. De tranquillitate & securitate animi. Lib. I. De fortuna Romanorum ex Plutarcho. Lib. I. De fortuna vel virtute Alexandri. Lib. II. Basilii magni epistola de vita per solitudinem transigenda. Colophon: Impressum Romae per Iacobum Mazochium, Romanae academiae bibliopolam, M.D.X. die. xxii. Febr.

Autore: PLUTARCHUS (ca. 46-ca. 120)

Tipografo: Giacomo Mazzocchi

Dati tipografici: Roma, 22 February 1510


4to (205x138 mm). [56] leaves. Collation: A-C8 D-L4. Title page within a woodcut architectural border. Colophon at l. L4v. Later vellum. Light damp staining throughout. Copy bearing several marginal annotations in a contemporary ink (a few slightly trimmed).

The edition, dedicated by the publisher Giacomo Mazzocchi to Sigismondo Conti secretary to Pope Julius II, contains three texts from Plutarch's Moralia (De tranquillitate animi, De fortuna romanorum, and De Alexandri Magni fortuna aut virtute) in the Latin version by Guillaume Budé (1467-1540). The work by Basilius Caesariensis announced in the title is not actually present in the edition.

Edit 16, CNCE53648; Sander, 5779, Ascarelli, no. 26; Hoffmann, III, p. 201.


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