Senofonte - Xenophontis et imperatori & philosophi carissimi omnia, quae exstant, opera - 1569

Xenophon. Very rare and beautiful Renaissance binding of the 16th century, in hazelnut-colored calf on wooden boards with plates and wheels depicting portraits within medallions, traces of two clips, handwritten title on the side cut, in excellent condition, edited by Johannes Lowenklau latinized in Leunclavius, famous historian and humanist who among other things was also an expert in the history of Turkey. Dimensions: 335x215 mm. Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; foreplay mainly in Latin. Publisher Thomas Guarin in Basel 1569.
By the Athenian historian and moralist Xenophon (c. 430-354 BC), the work Omnia contains: “De institutione Cyri, Lib. VIII ”-“ De Cyri expeditione, Lib.VII ”-“ Historiarum Graecarum. Lib. VII ". "The" Ciropedia "(education of Cyrus the Elder, founder of the Persian monarchy) is a historical novel in which the idealization of that sovereign is concretized in the delineation of an enlightened monarchy. In the "Hellenics" Xenophon narrated the events of the Greeks from 411 to 362 (battle of Mantinea) ”. “Operum Xenophontis Atheniensis viri maximi .. Quo continentur politicians, atque alij Books XV quorum indicem versa page exhibet, cum epistolarum fragmentis, & adpendice nova, Io. Leunclavii Amelburni lucubratio tertia ”.