Tito Livio, Anneo Floro Lucio - Ab Urbe Condita. - 1522

Anneo Floro Lucio. Titi Livii Decadum XIIII Epitome. Ab Urbe Condita. Florence at Giunti, undated but 1522. Fine edition from the early sixteenth century of the famous works of the great Roman historian. The work presents an epitome of Livy’s monumental history, which covers the history of Rome from its origins to the Augustan age, dividing it into four ages analogous to the stages of human life: Infancy, the Seven Kings, Adolescence, the conquest of Italy, Youth, expansion in the Mediterranean, and Old Age, the Civil Wars. Binding in antique polychrome cardboard. Title on a tailpiece (label) on the back. Large printer’s device of the famous Giunta printers engraved on the frontispiece. Dimensions 17 x 10, leaves 52, 63 (folio numbering). Excellent condition.