Isocrate - Isocratis Orationes - 1570

Rarissime edition that gathers a set of speeches and rhetorical treatises that testify to the political, moral, and educational thought of one of the greatest orators of ancient Greece, highlighting a demanding conception of eloquence founded on intellectual training, virtue, and civic engagement -

Through his orations, Isocrates develops an in-depth reflection on the role of speech in public life, considering rhetoric not as a mere art of persuasion but as an instrument in the service of the common good and of harmony among the Greek city-states -

He stresses the importance of educating the elites, which he wishes to steer toward wisdom, moderation, and political responsibility, in opposition to the sophistic practices he criticizes for their relativism and pursuit of immediate success -

Several speeches address major themes such as the unity of the Greek world in the face of external enemies, the need for political reforms, and the ethics of the leader, underscoring the ideal of a government enlightened by reason and justice -

Isocrates - Isocratis Orationes - SD (circa 1570) - Jérôme Wolf -
pp. (32) 797 (1) Pages.

Good binding condition, work in its full archival parchment from the period, wear from use, a few minor defects on boards and spine, speckled edges, backstrip with manuscript title -

Good interior condition, unfortunately the title page is missing and there is no colophon at the end of the book, but this is very likely the edition by Hieronymus Wolf (Jerome Wolf), published in Basel — probably the 1570 edition (or a close reprint), by the publisher Johannes Oporinus or his successors, nice headbands, beautiful woodcuts, the bilingual Greek-Latin interlinear format, with Greek and Latin translation side by side line by line, endpapers in decent condition, rare copy -

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