Apulée / Plantin / Pierre Colvius, Bonaventura Vulcanius - Opera Omnia quae exstant - 1594
Rare small edition (portable) from the Plantin presses in Leiden with its mark engraved on wood on the title page.
New edition including the important notes of Pierre Colvius, first in 16to format & corrected by Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614)
Of the greatest rarity, the original edition was printed by the same the previous year, in 1587. It was republished by the same by Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614) in 1594, this time in in-16 format, like here) .
Later binding (early 19th century) in half-leather, smooth spine decorated with gilded irons.
Very good state. Corners of the dishes a little damaged.
Fresh interior, slightly yellowed paper.
Apuleius, inspiration for Boccaccio, Don Quixote by Cervantes and Gil Blas by Santillane de Lesage, remains the only example of an accomplished sophist in Latin literature. Likewise, he remains one of the last representatives of Plato and one of the first of Neo-Platonic philosophy.
It was on the advice of the philologist Juste Lipse (1547-1606) that Colvius, a philologist and jurist from Bruges then aged 21, undertook to publish this brilliant and learned edition.
For the Ghent archaeologist Joseph-Emmanuel-Ghislain Roulez (1806-1878) , Colvius will go down in posterity for having been "the first who showed the right way to follow in the use of the manuscripts and resources offered for the correction of the text knowledge of the style particular to Apuleius and other African writers like him", and to add: "Neither before nor after the Bruges scholar, no publisher has taken such a considerable step in improving the text of this author . »
Contains in particular the major work of Apuleius "the Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass", in eleven books.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, written in the 2nd century, the only Latin novel of which we have the full text, recount the tribulations of a man transformed into a donkey by witchcraft.
The Golden Donkey was one of Gustave Flaubert's admirations. "This book is a masterpiece. It makes me dizzy and dazzling. Nature for itself, the landscape, the purely picturesque side of things, are treated there in a modern way and with an antique touch. and Christian all together who passes in the middle. It smells of incense and urine, bestiality is combined with mysticism, we are still very far from that, the rest of us, as moral philandering" (Gustave Flaubert, La Bêtise, art and life, Complexe ed. , p. 85) .
Title: L. Apulei Madaurensis Opera Omnia quae exstant. E quibus, post ultimamen P. Colvii editionem, Philosophici Libri Op. vestustiss. Cod. Ms. innumeris mendu expurgatii quampluririmio aucti per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem,
Author: Apuleius;
Publisher: Ex Officina Plantiniana: Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Lvgdvni Batavorvm, 1594; in-16,
[8] . , 80, 383 pp.
Subject: Apuleius Opera 1594 Plantin Notes Pierre Colvius & Bonaventura Vulcanius [Metamorphoses; or The Golden Donkey of Apuleius
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Rare small edition (portable) from the Plantin presses in Leiden with its mark engraved on wood on the title page.
New edition including the important notes of Pierre Colvius, first in 16to format & corrected by Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614)
Of the greatest rarity, the original edition was printed by the same the previous year, in 1587. It was republished by the same by Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614) in 1594, this time in in-16 format, like here) .
Later binding (early 19th century) in half-leather, smooth spine decorated with gilded irons.
Very good state. Corners of the dishes a little damaged.
Fresh interior, slightly yellowed paper.
Apuleius, inspiration for Boccaccio, Don Quixote by Cervantes and Gil Blas by Santillane de Lesage, remains the only example of an accomplished sophist in Latin literature. Likewise, he remains one of the last representatives of Plato and one of the first of Neo-Platonic philosophy.
It was on the advice of the philologist Juste Lipse (1547-1606) that Colvius, a philologist and jurist from Bruges then aged 21, undertook to publish this brilliant and learned edition.
For the Ghent archaeologist Joseph-Emmanuel-Ghislain Roulez (1806-1878) , Colvius will go down in posterity for having been "the first who showed the right way to follow in the use of the manuscripts and resources offered for the correction of the text knowledge of the style particular to Apuleius and other African writers like him", and to add: "Neither before nor after the Bruges scholar, no publisher has taken such a considerable step in improving the text of this author . »
Contains in particular the major work of Apuleius "the Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass", in eleven books.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, written in the 2nd century, the only Latin novel of which we have the full text, recount the tribulations of a man transformed into a donkey by witchcraft.
The Golden Donkey was one of Gustave Flaubert's admirations. "This book is a masterpiece. It makes me dizzy and dazzling. Nature for itself, the landscape, the purely picturesque side of things, are treated there in a modern way and with an antique touch. and Christian all together who passes in the middle. It smells of incense and urine, bestiality is combined with mysticism, we are still very far from that, the rest of us, as moral philandering" (Gustave Flaubert, La Bêtise, art and life, Complexe ed. , p. 85) .
Title: L. Apulei Madaurensis Opera Omnia quae exstant. E quibus, post ultimamen P. Colvii editionem, Philosophici Libri Op. vestustiss. Cod. Ms. innumeris mendu expurgatii quampluririmio aucti per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem,
Author: Apuleius;
Publisher: Ex Officina Plantiniana: Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Lvgdvni Batavorvm, 1594; in-16,
[8] . , 80, 383 pp.
Subject: Apuleius Opera 1594 Plantin Notes Pierre Colvius & Bonaventura Vulcanius [Metamorphoses; or The Golden Donkey of Apuleius
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