L'epistole di Phalaride tiranno de gli agrigentini, tradotte dalla lingua greca nella volgare italiana. Con l'indice delle lettre posto nel fine.
Venice, Giolito 1545.
Rare translation of this work factiously attributed to Phalaris, edited in the same year of the first edition. Modern binbding. Page 29 with spots. Otherwise good condition.
Size 4 by 6"
Text in Italian
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Phalaris was the tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily, from approximately 570 to 554 BC.
Phalaris was entrusted with the building of the temple of Zeus Atabyrius in the citadel and took advantage of his position to make himself despot. Under his rule, Agrigentum seemed to have attained considerable prosperity. He supplied the city with water, adorned it with fine buildings, and strengthened it with walls. On the northern coast of the island, the people of Himera elected him general with absolute power, in spite of the warnings of the poet Stesichorus. According to the Suda he succeeded in making himself master of the whole of the island. He was at last overthrown in a general uprising headed by Telemachus, the ancestor of Theron of Acragas (tyrant c. 488–472 BC), and burned in his own brazen bull.
Phalaris was renowned for his excessive cruelty. Among his alleged atrocities is cannibalism: he was said to have eaten suckling babies.
Pindar, who lived less than a century afterwards, expressly associates this instrument of torture with the name of the tyrant.
There was certainly a brazen bull at Agrigentum that was carried off by the Carthaginians to Carthage. This is said to have been later taken by Scipio the Elder and restored to Agrigentum circa 200 BC. However, it is more likely that it was Scipio the Younger who returned this bull and other stolen works of art to the original Sicilian cities, after his total destruction of Carthage circa 146 BC, which ended the Third Punic War.
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