Plutarch, pseudo. De Placitis Philosophorum Naturalibus L...

      Guillaume Bude, ed. & trans. Rome: Jacob Mazochius [Giacomo Mazzocchi], 1510. 4to. [a]4,b-l4. [8],xlff=80pp. Later 1/2 morocco, old stamp on t.p. faded and on a4v Capuchin library of Naples, fine crisp copy, minor pin wormholes. T.p. in architectural border. First Edition Thus. A translation of the spurious 'Peri ton areskonton philosophois phusikon dogmaton' by Guillaume Budé. "The Placitis philosophorum' ascribed to Plutarch is one of our main sources (though itself second hand) for the study of ancient philosophy." [Sarton]Regarded since the seventeenth century as pseudepigraphic because of its verbal similarities to other doxographicaltreatises, De placitis philosophorum sets forth, in Books I-III, the opinions of Greek natural philosophers on the questions of the makeup of the cosmos and on the operation ofvarious celestial phenomena, while Books IV-V treat of questions relating to the function of the human soul and to the nature of human reproduction and physiology. While obviously selective in its content and generally superficial in its treatment, the treatise nevertheless preserves much interesting material on topics widely debated in ancientphilosophical circles. EDIT 16 (on-line) cnc 30300 (1 copy only). Hoffmann III,201. Durling/NLM3698.1. RLIN adds 3 copies in US [Folger, Harvard, Bancroft].