Marco Tullio Cicerone; Jacopo Gariglio - Dell'oratore. Dialoghi tre - 1769

Rare 18th-century Italian edition of Cicero’s De oratore, in two volumes, with parallel Latin text and Italian translation by Jacopo Gariglio, professor of Rhetoric at the Royal Schools of Vercelli.

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero.

On the Orator. Three Dialogues by Marcus Tullius Cicero to Quintus brother, translated into the vernacular and illustrated with notes by Jacopo Gariglio of Piobesi, professor of rhetoric at the Royal Schools of Vercelli.

Publisher: Giuseppe Panialis.

Place and year: Vercelli, 1769.

Collation
Volume I: pages in Latin (preliminaries and introduction), followed by 391 numbered pages.
Volume II: 400 pages, including the final 12 pages with the general index.

Format and size: 2 volumes in‑8 (approximately 22 × 14 cm), with wide margins and a title page printed in red and black with an engraved vignette.

Language: Latin and Italian on facing pages, with extensive notes by Gariglio, reflecting 18th-century rhetoric teaching in the Piedmontese states.

Condition
Contemporary or early plain cardboard bindings, worn but appealing; upper cover of volume I detached at the hinge and the spine is partly missing, sewing still solid and quires firmly held.

Vol. II with similar plain cardboard binding, edges and corners worn, but spine mostly present with handwritten title still visible.

Inside: complete set; paper generally clean with light foxing and age-related browning, no major tears or losses; large, untrimmed margins.

Old red wax seal remnant on an inner blank and a small wax spot on the title page, as traces of early ownership.

Old handwritten ownership inscription dated 1936 on one of the blanks (surname undeciphered), adding to the provenance of the set.

Overall condition: good for age (about 250 years old), with structurally sound text blocks, honest wear to the original simple bindings and some charming traces of historical use.

Notes for bidders
Important Piedmontese edition of Cicero’s major rhetorical work, produced for the Royal Schools of Vercelli and rarely offered complete in both volumes. A desirable copy for collectors of classical literature, rhetoric, or 18th-century Italian book history.