BOOK, Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, Venice 1516.

Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Tusculanae q[uae]stiones.

Venice, Augustinus de Zannis, 1516. Folio. 30 x 20 cm. [vi] + 124 leaves. Title attractively printed in red & black, with woodcut illustrations. 5 woodcut illustrations in text.

Recent half vellum. Very fine.

Adams C1800, Essling 1685, Sander 1984, Schweiger II, 213.

Scarce edition with the commentary by Beroaldus. The Tusculan Disputations is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in Ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is so called as it was reportedly written at his villa in Tusculum. His daughter had recently died and in mourning Cicero devoted himself to philosophical studies.

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