Messire Gaspar Bachet - Commentaires sur les Epistres d'Ovide - 1716

Rare two-volume set enriched with 2 frontispieces of this scholarly edition devoted to the explanation and interpretation of Ovid's poetic letters, one of the great authors of classical Latin literature, and part of the tradition of learned editions aimed at illuminating ancient texts through history, mythology, philology, and morality -

The edition of Ovid occupies a considerable place in European culture due to the richness of its imagination, its poetic elegance, and the lasting influence of its mythological narratives, and the Epistles to which Bachet is concerned belong to this literary universe where the characters of Greco-Roman mythology speak in the form of letters addressed to beings loved, absent or lost -

The Heroides, in particular, feature famous heroines such as Penelope, Dido, Ariadne, Phèdre, Medea or Helen, who express their complaints, regrets, accusations, hopes or desires in an imaginary correspondence with the heroes on whom they emotionally depend -

Messire Gaspar Bachet - Commentaires sur les Epistres d'Ovide - 1716 - Tome I et II - Henri Du Sauzet -
XXXI + 76 pages + 457 pages + 3 p d' errata . … 467 Page.

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their tawny calfskin leather of the period, wear from handling, a few minor defects on covers and spine, headcap shaved, corners worn, red edges, spine with raised bands, gilt roulettes on the heads and tails, titling and volume numbers gilded on pieces of tawny morocco, faint coldstamping framing the boards -

Good interior condition, browning and some stains, title pages printed in red and black and adorned with a fine engraving, volumes enriched with 2 frontispieces, pretty headbands, endpapers in satisfactory condition, a pleasing overall set -

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