Prev / Next

Books, Autographs & Prints

Tuesday 11 November 2025 e Wednesday 12 November 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

365

Legatura

Plutarco

Some moral pamphlets of Plutarch translated by Marcellus Hadrian the Younger, 1823

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 310

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Brescia, from the Foresti e Cristiani press, 1823. In 12vo. Splendid romantic long-grain red morocco binding with finely decorated geometric and figurative borders on the boards, spine decorated with gilt motifs, gilt title, gilt edges.

Specialist Notes

"Marcello Adriani the Younger, who translated Plutarch's Opuscules Morali into vernacular towards the end of the 16th century, held a chair of humanities in Florence. (...) This translation of his earned the praise of everyone who had it in his hands, for the felicity and accuracy with which the original was turned, for the purity of the dictation, and for the noble and elegant simplicity of his frank and naive style. (...)" (from the Letter to the Courteous Reader, p.7).

Suggested lots

Caricamento lotti suggeriti...