Boethius Isidor von Sevilla

LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound with] BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - De summo bono

      Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen 1489, 1486, 1483 - Three titles bound as one volume. Folio, contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy. A BEAUTIFUL VOLUME AND A SUPERB EDITION. Concerning the Boethius, DE CONSOLATIONE was the most famous of BoethiusÕ works and was written while he was in prison on false charges. "De Consolatione" is described by Gibbon as "Ôa golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.Õ" [Ency Brit]. The text is arranged in five books and the style is both prose and verse. As Plato argued before him, Boethius claims that contrary to appearances, "vice is never unpunished nor virtue unrewarded." [Ency Brit] He claims as his own sources: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachos, Ptolemy and Albinus. He was a statesman as well as a philosopher, and was appointed Consul in Rome under Theodorie the Ostrogoth in 510. Because he was eventually put to death, he was soon characterized as a martyr for the Christian cause. Later, BoethiusÕ work was greatly instrumental in bringing back a focus on Plato and Aristotle and it was highly esteemed throughout the Middle Ages. Alfred the Great translated it into Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer turned it into English, while before the end of tghe eighteenth century versions had appeared in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Greek. The commentary is ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas. [Attributes: Hard Cover]