{"product_id":"terence","title":"TERENCE","description":"\u003cp\u003eA good, clean copy of this much-praised edition of Terence s comedies by the renowned humanist Marc-Antoine Muret.  It is the most estimable as it is of very neat execution, and   because the new Scholia, added as a supplement to the Aldine of 1570, are here put in place  (Renouard 219:13). Publius Terentius Afer (195\/185-c.159BC), of Berber origins, was acquired as a slave by a Roman senator, educated in Rome and later freed thanks to his skills. His six comedies survived the medieval period in hundreds of manuscripts; they were widely used to teach Latin well into the C16, and they provided the model for the earliest  comoediae sacrae , a new genre inspired by the Reformation. In 1570, Paulus Manutius had commissioned new  scholia  from the Neo-Latin poet and classicist Muret (1526-85), adding them as an appendix to the Terentian text. This edition includes a life of Terence, critical preliminary material based on the writings of Aelius Donatus, and Muret s  scholia , with very few revisions to the previously-printed text. The young Aldus had even suggested the addition of a woodcut portrait of Terence from a book at the Vatican Library; the ever-critical Muret replied that he should  focus on serious and important things: good paper, good typeface and, most of all, accurate revisions  (Dejob,  Marc-Antoine Muret , 483-85).  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n  In 1581, an early owner noted down lines from the plays on this copy; later, it was in the possession of Marie Louis Henri d Escorches de Sainte-Croix (1749-1830), officer, minister and French diplomat at Constantinople.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TERENCE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820345958735,"sku":"L3387","price":2350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7060.jpg?v=1781794815","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/terence","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}