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STATIUS, Publius Papinius

[Opera] denuo ac serio emendatus

Amsterodami
Joannes Janssonius
1630

€80 - €140

16mo, 356, [3] pp, engraved title-page. Full vellum binding. We add: idem. Opera ad optimas editiones collata ... Biponti, ex typographia Societatis, 1785. 8vo, xxiv, 527 pp, engraved title-vignette, slightly age-toned, bound in half leather, corners worn, red edges (together: 2)

Epic poem about the war of the Seven against Thebes, translated into Italian. Like Virgil, who is a character in the first two canticles of Dante's Divine Comedy, Statius, too, plays a large role in the Comedy: Dante and Virgil meet Statius in Purgatory, and he accompanies the two to the Earthly Paradise at the summit of the holy mountain. (Wikipedia)

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