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JUSTIN - M. Ivniani Ivstini Historia ex Trogo... - Lot 11 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
JUSTIN - M. Ivniani Ivstini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio. Diligentissime recensuit et emendatione addidit Tanaqvill. Faber. Editio nova. Salmvrii [in Saumur], Apud Renatvm Pean, 1671, in-12, 11-[9]- 395 (pp. 269-271 placed between pp. 208-209)- 1 blank-150-[2] p., old signature to the title (Lestoille?), numerous old marginal annotations, full contemporary brown calf, decorated spine with nerves (spines and nerves lightly rubbed, upper headband formerly restored, stamps). A good copy. Justin (in Latin Marcus Junianus Justinus) is a Roman historian. His existence is most often dated to the 3rd century, but some place it in the 4th century. Almost nothing is known of his life. He is the author of an Abridgement of the Philippic Histories, a work which he presents in his preface as an anthology of the most important and interesting passages of the voluminous work entitled "Historiae philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs" written by Trogue Pompey at the time of Augustus. The value of his work and its greater or lesser fidelity to the original text of Trogue Pompey are the subject of debate: Justin's text contains a fairly large number of historical errors. For Paul Jal, Justin did not simply abbreviate but composed, from his source, an autonomous work corresponding to a literary approach. This judgment is largely shared by John Yardley, for whom Justin taught rhetoric and composed his work around 200, based on that of Trogue, while also being influenced by the practice of rhetoric and by the work of Titus Live. Tanneguy Lefebvre, known as Tanaquillus Faber, born in Caen in 1615 and died in Saumur on September 12, 1672, was a French philologist and Hellenist. He embraced Calvinism in 1644 and settled in Saumur in 1649 where he obtained, two years later, a professorship at the Protestant academy which he held with great success for nearly twenty years (Saumur took up the cause of the Reformed religion). Rare impression of Saumur.
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