Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis - L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi Platonici Opera - 1614

[16], 1103, [13] p.; v. 2: 442, [10], 124, [112] p. (the last 3 p. blank)
ApuleI Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Opera, quae extant, omnia
cum Philippi Beroaldi in Asinum aureum eruditissimis commentariis : recénsque Godescalci StevvechI Heusdani in L. Apuleij opera omnia quaestionibus & coniecturis, nec non aliorum doctorum virorum in eundem emendationibus adiectis : postremae huic editioni accesserunt I. Casauboni in apologiam doctissima castigationes, Ioannis Pyrrhi in libros quatuor Floridorum scholia, F. Roaldi variae lectiones, Iani Gruteri suspiciones, & Gasparis Schoppij suspecta lectiones. Noua editio emendatior, & variis lectionibus locupletior. Cum indice ...
by Apuleius, Filippo Beroaldo, Godescalcus Stewechius, Isaac Casaubon, Jean Pyrrhus d' Angleberme, Franciscus Roaldus, Janus Gruterus, and Kaspar Schoppe

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L. ApuleI Madaurensis philosophi Platonici Opera, quae extant, omnia: cum Philippi Beroaldi in Asinum aureum eruditissimis commentariis : recénsque Godescalci StevvechI Heusdani in L. Apuleij opera omnia quaestionibus & coniecturis, nec non aliorum doctorum virorum in eundem emendationibus adiectis : postremae huic editioni accesserunt I. Casauboni in apologiam doctissima castigationes, Ioannis Pyrrhi in libros quatuor Floridorum scholia, F. Roaldi variae lectiones, Iani Gruteri suspiciones, & Gasparis Schoppij suspecta lectiones
1614, Apud viduam Anthonij de Harsy ...
in Latin - Noua editio emendatior, & variis lectionibus locupletior. Cum indice ...
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Thick tome with original XVII leather binding and gold titles.2000 pages. divided in 2 parts. 18x11 cm. Just about 150 years into the Common Era, the African writer Apuleius produced one of the most influential novels ever written, a model for Cervantes, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter. The plot surrounds the misfortunes of Lucius, who fumbles around ambitiously with magic spells and accidentally turns himself into a donkey. The narrative of Lucius's four-footed travels is interspersed with many other tales, including the story of Cupid and Psyche--one of the first examples in culture of a fairy tale transmitted in written rather than oral form. In the end, Lucius recovers human form through a ritual of religious initiation into the cult of Isis. The book survived, barely, in manuscript (I think it survived due to its pornographic passages, which were probably quite dear to cloistered monks), and was revived in the Renaissance with the commentary of the humanist scholar Filippo Beroaldo, included in this edition of the text. Ex Libris Federico Garcia Sanchiz (1886-1964) Spanish journalist and writer

Possibly the most imposing edition of Apuleius also discussing magic at the time.