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Heritage
Los Angeles
Feb '96
$125

Plutarchus. (c 46AD - after 120 AD).
Vitae illustrium virorum. (Vitae parallelae).
See #470 Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 2 Jan 1478. f^0
Ref: Goff P-832 HC 13127 Polain(B) 3212 Pr 4113
BMC V 178
Cop: HEHL, LC, NYPL, U Cal BL, WArtGL, New L

Translated by various hands.
BMC V 178 - VOl. I. 233 leaves the 1st blank (a^10 b^12-1 c-m^10 n^8 o-x^10 yzz^8)
Vol II. 226 leaves. 3^a: 50 lines, 280x160mm
Types: 115 (111)R. Capital spaces with guide letters
at the beginning of each life.
large text tyep. Single Qu. Rather broad H. Upright of d extends slightly
below the line. Det of i ot rt. of letter. SIngle sloping hyphen. Straight tailed y.
HEHL 43413 not rubricated. my leaf i^* (of 10) folio 86 matches this copy
Periclis Viri Illustris Vita Ex Plutarcho Graeco In
Latinum per Lapum Florentinum Versa.
begins folio 82 h^10 before Camilli
ends folio 90 i8 after Fabii Maximi
Vol 1st - Thesei. this copy - 41.5x27cm.
last - Sertorii.

- Third ed. the first printed by Jenson.
Plutarch - Greek philosopher, biographer + essayist of the
1st + 2nd C. AD. THe lives are character studies of 50
distinguished Greeks + Romans of whom 46 are arranged
roughly chronologically in pairs (1st a Greek, then a Roman,
finally a comparison)
Pericles - Athenian statesman of the 5th C. B.C. (c 495 BC - 429)

Shakespeare relied almost exclusively on Plutarch for the
historical background of ancient Rome. Plutarch is the
some from, which he took the plots, + in many cases the
characterization + diction, of all his "classical" plays. This
borrowing is most evident in Anthony + Cleopatra +