{"product_id":"ausonius-with-scaliger-joseph","title":"AUSONIUS. [with] SCALIGER, Joseph.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.The most attractive contemporary binding  ‚àö‚Ć fond d or  was probably produced in Lyon. It reprises the style of Henry Davis Gift, 106 (on a 1570 Lyonnaise Gryphius), and Belin Cat., 194. LVD. D.S.P. was probably Louis (c.1579-1654), last Marquis de Saint-Priest of the original line. Gentleman of the King s Chamber, he attended scholarly academies, was appointed royal diplomat, and resided in Saint-Priest castle near Lyon (Gauer, 17).  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .An exquisite pocket student book comprising the first Gryphe edition of Ausonius s complete works, edited by Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), and the first edition of Scaliger s related commentary. Though bibliographies record them as a single work, Scaliger s commentary being mentioned in the first t-p, they intended to also be sold separately. Ausonius (c.310-95) was a renowned poet and rhetoric teacher in Burdigala (Bordeaux); among his pupils was the future Pauline, Bishop of Nola. He was also tutor to the son of Emperor Valentinian I, and converted to Christianity late in life. A perfect tool for a Renaissance schoolboy, this collection includes Latin epigrams, occasional poetry addressed to acquaintances (including contemporary rhetoric and grammar professors), four-verse poems on the Roman Emperors, ancient philosophers and cities in Gallia, idyllia, eclogues and epistles, with a final section of Greek epigrams on moral and mythological subject. Scaliger s major editorial contribution to the Ausonian corpus is epitomized in the  Lectiones . It is a detailed commentary with copious emendations to the received text published by Étienne Charpin in 1558, who updated the 1472 editio princeps on the basis of a new ms. recently rediscovered in Lyon. Whilst preparing his edition, Scaliger, then in France, corresponded with Élie Vinet, author of a 1551 edition. They had access to the ms., owned by the humanist Jacques Cujas, and reassessed several of Charpin s editorial choices.  Both Vinet and Scaliger are rightly regarded by modern editors as major contributors to the text of Ausonius; between them they provide some 300 useful emendations  (Green, 357-8). A lovely copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AUSONIUS. [with] SCALIGER, Joseph.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859629318479,"sku":"L3554","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9132.jpg?v=1781793797","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/ausonius-with-scaliger-joseph","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}