1642 Discourses Upon Cornelius Tacitus

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first English edition of this work.

Illustrated with a woodcut title page.

ESTC citation number R13322.

Collated, complete.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

An interesting work on Tacitus, set out through a series of fifty-three discourses.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician, generally regarded to be one of the greatest historians of the Roman era. He was active during the Silver Age of Latin literature known for his Latin writing style of brevity and compactness.

These discourses offer an interesting insight into the life and work of the important Roman figure.

Originally written in Italian by Virgilio Malvezzi, a seventeenth century historian and essayist.

This edition translated by Sir Richard Baker.