Dionigi di Alicarnasso - Dionysii Halicarn. Antiquitatum Rom. libri 11. ab Aemilio Porto recens et post aliorum interpretatio

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6, [18], 383, [1], 107, [1], 47, [1], 56, 24, 36, 50, [42] pp. Hardcover, bound in full elegant gilt tooled binding with coat of arms in the centre of the boards "Carolus Lotharingia Abbas Gorziensis 1609," i. e. Charles of Lorraine, son of Charles the Great, Duke of Lorraine. The binding beautifully preserved. Marginal dampstaining; small marginal repair to the title page. Dionysius was a historian and teacher of ancient Greek rhetoric who lived during the reign of Augustus. This, Roman Antiquities, his major work, covers Roman history from the Mythical period until the beginning of the First Punic War. The history was divided into twenty books, of which the first nine remain entire; the tenth and eleventh are almost complete and fragments of the other books remain in the extracts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and an epitome discovered in a palimpsest by Angelo Mai in Milan. Dionysius carefully consulted the best authorities: his work is the earliest extant Roman history. His and that of Livy are the only accounts still in existence that are coherent and detailed. Seller Inventory # M22-C1-1

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