MARC-AURÈLE [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus].

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MARC-AURÈLE [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus].
De seipso seu vita sua Libri XII Graecè & Latinè. Zurich, Andrea Gesner, s.d. [1559]. 2 parts in one volume in-8, marbled basane, cold rat's tooth, decorated spine, green title-piece, blue speckled edges (Binding from the 18th century). Brunet, t. I, col. 327-328. Edition princeps, rare, of Les Pensées de l'empereur Marc-Aurèle (IIe siècle). A sort of diary offering reflections on the vanity of earthly things, the Pensées were written in part during the emperor's last military campaigns: Never before had one written more simply for oneself, for the sole purpose of unburdening one's heart, with no other witness than God. Not a shadow of a system. Marcus Aurelius, strictly speaking, has no philosophy; although he owes almost everything to the stoicism transformed by the Roman spirit, he is of no school (Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius and the End of the Ancient World, 1882, p. 262). The Greek version of the text is accompanied, in separate pagination, by the Latin translation of the humanist Guillaume Xylander. This edition also includes a Latin translation and the Greek version of the Life of Proclus by Marinus of Neapolis, a neo-Platonic philosopher who lived in the fifth century. Some ancient annotations in pen. The last two parts in Greek are inverted. Restored binding, nevertheless a bit split again and small missing at the top cap.
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