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PLUTARCHUS. Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romaines. Transl. p. J. Amyot. Par., C. Morel, 1619. (20), 778, (13) lvs. W. large engr. ti-vign., engr. portr. of author & translator and num. woodcut portrs. in the text. Fol. Recent full cf. w. old cf. gilt dec. centerpiece laid down on both sides. (Tear in bottom of spine, name entry removed from lower margin ti-p. (causing a hole), ink stain in upper margin last lvs., a bit browned/foxed in places).
French translation by Jacques Amyot (1513-1593), French humanist and prelate. The original edition dates from 1559. "Parallel Lives" consists of around fifty biographies of illustrious men, a large part of which are placed in parallel (thus contrasting a Greek with a Roman), for example Pericles and Fabius Maximus; Demosthenes and Cicero.€ 160
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