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Rarissime ensemble en deux tomes de cette œuvre fondatrice de la biographie comparative, où l’histoire devient miroir moral et politique -

Cette édition regroupe les célèbres Vies parallèles, où Plutarque confronte les trajectoires de grands hommes grecs et romains — Alexandre et César, Démosthène et Cicéron, Lycurgue et Numa — en soulignant leurs vertus, leurs failles, et les leçons civiques qu’on peut en tirer -

Plutarque - Vies des hommes illustres - 1604 - Tome I et II -
1294 en pagination continue + 15pp

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Bon état intérieur, pages brunes, page de titre manquante ainsi que les 21 premières, textes en deux colonnes, ouvrages enrichis de nombreux portraits des Hommes illustres au début de chaque Chapitre - 

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