Q. Horatius Flaccus - Opera - 1780

Elegant eighteenth-century edition of the works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, one of the foremost authors of classical Latin literature.

Q. Horatius Flaccus… Opera, edited by Francesco Dorighello. Padua (Patavii), 1780.

Format in-8° (cm 17.5 × 10.8). Three volumes in one: pp. LXIX, 321; XX, 265, (3); 258, (1).

Back binding with manuscript title on the spine; marbled boards. Typographic frontispiece with a copper-engraved vignette. Latin text with extensive apparatus of commentary and erudite notes.

The work collects the entire corpus of Horace: Carmina (Odes), Epodes, Sermones (Satires), Epistles and the Ars Poetica, accompanied by introductions, indices and critical apparatus that facilitate reading and philological study.

Genuine and well-preserved specimen: fresh leaves with physiological browning and sporadic foxing; slight signs of use to the binding, overall solid and pleasant.

Padua edition of 1780, not common, significant for the Italian classical studies publishing tradition at the end of the eighteenth century. The presence of the three volumes bound in a single volume and the preserved state add to its collecting interest. A fundamental work for scholars and bibliophiles of Latin literature, difficult to find complete on the antiquarian market.