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MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS. Hoc volumine continentur Macrobii interpretatio in somnium Scipionis [etc.]. 1515
MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS. Hoc volumine continentur Macrobii interpretatio in somnium Scipionis a Cicerone confectum. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri septem. 6 woodcut diagrams; woodcut world map on i7v. [12], 279, [1] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, rebacked at an early date; occasional light soiling and foxing, stain in lower inner corner of a few leaves in middle volume, 19th-century owner's stamp ("ex libris Victoris Aemilii Tiranti") on title and elsewhere. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, July 1515)
- Notes: Treatise on Neoplatonic philosophy in the form of a commentary on Cicero''s Somnium Scipionis, written in the early 5th century A. D. and first published in 1472, containing extensive incidental remarks on cosmology and the sciences. Cantamessa 2658 note; DSB IX, 1-2; Shirley 13 (1483 edition); Renouard (Giunta), page xxxix (this edition); Sarton I, 385.
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