TACITE (Corneille).

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TACITE (Corneille).
Opera. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1585. 3 parts in one volume in folio, granite basane, decorated spine, edges speckled with red (17th century binding). Beautiful Plantinian edition reviewed and commented by Juste Lipse (1547-1606), the third after those of 1574 and 1581: this Flemish philologist contributed greatly to the rediscovery of Tacitus in Europe during the Renaissance. A folding table (Stemma Augustae domus) in volume I. Old manuscript ex-libris on the title, one of which scratched. Spine decoration almost erased, small lacks in the headpieces and corners. The suite has been linked to the continuation of the same: Ab excessa divi Augusti annalium libri quatuor priores. Paris, Robert de Colombel, 1583 [sic for 1581]. The first political commentary on Tacitus, by Charles Paschal (1547-1604), a Piedmontese nobleman who was the protégé of Marguerite of Savoy and who worked for a time at Plantin (cf. Écritures de l'histoire..., Actes du colloque du Centre Montaigne, Droz, 2005, p. 127). Original edition, printed for Robert de Colombel, a Parisian bookshop that had taken up the Aldine anchor as a typographical mark and used the mention in Aldina Bibliotheca on the titles of his books. Notebooks B and C, inverted, freckles. Date on the title in ink and changed in 1583 instead of 1581.
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