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Dialogo dell'honore... Nel quale si tratta à pieno del duello, con la tavola di quanto vi si contiene, fatta con diverso ordine dall'altre. Di nuovo ristampato.
de POSSEVINO, Giovanni Battista
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- near fine
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
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Milan, Italy
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AN ELEGANT RENAISSANCE IMPRINT ABOUT HONOUR, CHIVALRY ETHICS AND DUELLING
4to, pp. [8], 318 [i.e. 322], [42]. Italic letter, some Roman. Large and beautiful printer's device on t-p and Giolito's classic phoenix with motto in cartouche on verso of final leaf. Register and repeated imprint at colophon. Large woodcut historiated initials and elaborate head and tailpieces. Private library shelfmark over C19th paper label glued on upper pastedown. T-p a little soiled, occasional light marginal damp staining, very skilfully restored horizontal tear at margin of first leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum, calligraphic title to head of spine. Internally clean; an excellent, sound copy.
Second edition, the first having been printed in 1553. The book is developed in the form of a dialogue between Giberto di Correggio and the author. The first book deals with "what honour is, how it is gained and lost"; the second with "our soul's freedom according to Aristotle, and about the offences of those who have no honour and remain honourless"; the third with "how the lost honour can be regained"; the fourth with "which are the degrees of science and a discourse on nobility"; the fifth book deals with "all aspects of duelling and the possible ways to achieve peace, which are contained in the whole five books".
A passage from the dialogue in relation to Aeneas' final act, that is, the killing of Turnus towards the end of the Aeneid, which Possevino found fault with, from the perspective of Christian chivalric codes of honour, is helpful to understand the main topic of the dialogue. Giberto asks Possevino whether it can be right for a man to kill his adversary in a duel. Giberto explains that he raises the question because it has already been established that the goal of a duel between two heroes or strong men should be the recuperation of lost honour and not the death of one of the combatants. Possevino's answer is no: killing an opponent would be dishonourable since, as Aristotle teaches us, the victory itself is the honourable thing. Giberto then asks the pivotal question: how, then, can Aeneas kill the suppliant Turnus and yet retain his honour? Possevino answers that indeed he cannot: at the poem's conclusion Aeneas is stripped of honour." (see Richard F. Thomas, Virgil and the Augustan Reception, Cambridge University Press 2004, p. 286).
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4to, pp. [8], 318 [i.e. 322], [42]. Italic letter, some Roman. Large and beautiful printer's device on t-p and Giolito's classic phoenix with motto in cartouche on verso of final leaf. Register and repeated imprint at colophon. Large woodcut historiated initials and elaborate head and tailpieces. Private library shelfmark over C19th paper label glued on upper pastedown. T-p a little soiled, occasional light marginal damp staining, very skilfully restored horizontal tear at margin of first leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum, calligraphic title to head of spine. Internally clean; an excellent, sound copy.
Second edition, the first having been printed in 1553. The book is developed in the form of a dialogue between Giberto di Correggio and the author. The first book deals with "what honour is, how it is gained and lost"; the second with "our soul's freedom according to Aristotle, and about the offences of those who have no honour and remain honourless"; the third with "how the lost honour can be regained"; the fourth with "which are the degrees of science and a discourse on nobility"; the fifth book deals with "all aspects of duelling and the possible ways to achieve peace, which are contained in the whole five books".
A passage from the dialogue in relation to Aeneas' final act, that is, the killing of Turnus towards the end of the Aeneid, which Possevino found fault with, from the perspective of Christian chivalric codes of honour, is helpful to understand the main topic of the dialogue. Giberto asks Possevino whether it can be right for a man to kill his adversary in a duel. Giberto explains that he raises the question because it has already been established that the goal of a duel between two heroes or strong men should be the recuperation of lost honour and not the death of one of the combatants. Possevino's answer is no: killing an opponent would be dishonourable since, as Aristotle teaches us, the victory itself is the honourable thing. Giberto then asks the pivotal question: how, then, can Aeneas kill the suppliant Turnus and yet retain his honour? Possevino answers that indeed he cannot: at the poem's conclusion Aeneas is stripped of honour." (see Richard F. Thomas, Virgil and the Augustan Reception, Cambridge University Press 2004, p. 286).
Edit16 CNCE 27132
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- Título
- Dialogo dell'honore... Nel quale si tratta à pieno del duello, con la tavola di quanto vi si contiene, fatta con diverso ordine dall'altre. Di nuovo ristampato.
- Autor
- POSSEVINO, Giovanni Battista
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
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- 1
- Editorial
- Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, et fratelli
- Lugar de publicación
- Venice
- Fecha de publicación
- 1556
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
