Cornelio Gallo - Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius - 1743

Rare edition attributed to Cornelio Gallo that gathers the works of the three great Latin elegiac poets, Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, in an erudite presentation intended for 18th-century humanist and bibliophile readers.

This volume offers a carefully typeset presentation of the elegies and poems, accompanied by a critical and philological apparatus that reflects the scholarly tradition of Dutch presses, renowned for the quality of their classical editions.

Catullus appears with his lyrical and satirical poems, celebrating love, friendship, and biting wit; Tibullus with his elegies imbued with sweetness, simplicity, and nostalgia, extolling rustic life and faithful love; Propertius with his more complex and erudite compositions, where love becomes a field of poetic and mythological reflection.

The invocation of Cornelio Gallo, a lost elegiac poet whose work has not survived, serves as a symbolic framework for this gathering of the three masters, as a way to restore the entire Latin elegiac corpus.

Cornelio Gallo - Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius - 1743 - Lugduni Batavorum
xvi, 344 pages

In excellent condition of the binding, the work is in full marbled calf from the period, showing signs of use, with the top edge worn away and a small crack at the end of the upper joint, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, with gilded titling on a red morocco inlay.

Good interior condition, browning, superb vignette on the title page, marbled endpapers.

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