Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Philosophy
Binding: Leather
Description: In CICERO. MAIUS NIZOLIUS. NIZOLIUS SIVE THESAURUS CICERONIANUS, Marcelli subinde Squarcialupi studio mactus digestusque, Caelli Secundi Curionis labore olim auctus. Insigni tum simplicum tum compositorum verborumaccessione locupletatus, nunc demum à Jacobo Cellario Augustano. Ciceronianarum vocum Barbaris substitutarum auctiore & diversatum Ciceronis Editionum fideli Collatione, hace cum indicatore. Calf binding, Lugduni, Apud Antonium de Harsy, 1588. retreated. Improved endpapers. The title page's upper right corner is missing. Overall excellent state folio measuring 9 by 14 1/4" with 1545 pages. Published under the title "Observationes in Ciceronem" in 1535, this enormously erudite work serves as a dictionary of terms used by Cicero in his works rather than as a contemporary thesaurus to help prevent repetition or identify synonyms for everyday words. For example, some scholars would be stumped by the word "Iuba," but Nizzoli is ready to explain (in Latin, of course) that "iuba" refers to the hair that hangs around horses' necks. Subsequently, following the explanation (just like for all the other terms), Nizzoli presents passages from several Cicero writings where "iuba" is mentioned. It took a tremendous amount of work to produce such a masterpiece, and the title page informs us that adding a fourth part to it required herculean effort. Mario Nizzoli (1498–1566) was a humanist philosopher who, like his idol Cicero, went so far as to criticize scholastics like Saint Thomas Aquinas for their "monstrous ideas and barbarous [and of course un-Ciceronian] language." Text in Latin. Ex-library (front pastedown with ex-libris)
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