1546 VELLUM BOUND FOLIO by VALERII MAXIMI MORALIUM EXEMPLORUM LIBRI Size 8 1/4 by 11 3/4"
Damage to the spine which comes into the book block, affecting some pages at their inner side (next to the spine). The binding is tight, firmly attached.

Valerii Maximi Moralium Exemplorum Libri novem, summa diligentia castigati, ac fidelissimis eruditissimorum virorum Oliuerii. s. Arziganensis, Iodociq[ue] Badij Ascensii commentariis enarrati, quibus addita sunt quattuor & viginti exempla, nuper Aldi Manutii industria inuenta, eiusdem Ascensii commentariis exornata. Cum duplici indice, altero quidem capitum, altero vero eorum qu toto opere notatu digna visa sunt. Insunt prterea Theophili viri eruditissimi perutiles lucubrationes, qu tibi non mediocri erunt (si huius auctoris virtutes optime nosce volueris) adiumento.

Rare Venetian edition of the early Roman historian Valerius Maximus , who flourished in the reign of Tiberius (and to whom he dedicates his book). The work itself is a curiously arranged compilation of historical anecdotes taken from various sources (Roman and Greek) to illustrate a particular theme, mostly moral or philosophical, and its historical value has never been highly regarded. Nonetheless, Valerius's prose has attracted the attention of many, and has been described as embodying a rhetoric in transition from Classical to Silver Latin. According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "direct and simple statement is eschewed and novelty pursued at any price. The barrier between the diction of poetry and that of prose is broken down; the uses of words are strained; monstrous metaphors are invented; there are startling contrasts, dark innuendoes and highly coloured epithets; the most unnatural variations are played upon the artificial scale of grammatical and rhetorical figures of speech ... "
Valerius' book, nevertheless, was widely used as a schoolbook in the Middle Ages. Numerous incunable editions were printed; the first Aldine edition in 1502.
Valerius Maximus was a Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD).

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