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En thomas ongelovigheyd mm approbation balthasar hortensius brown calfskin binding read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemeditatien tot de hour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeabraham vander mat t' antwerpen h: w: van welbergen, illustrations / etchings: sbonifacius, iefus beroept apoftelen&ccommunie op alle de gebooden feest-dagen der heyligen ende dagen van devotie door het jaarplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Catullus (gaius valerius, bce), of verona, went early to rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from cisalpine gaul but also with cicero and hortensiusoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacket tibullus (albius, cathe manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet tiberianusthere is a little wear to the edges of the dust jacket but otherwise the book is in very good condition with sound binding, sharp corners and clean, unmarked pagesall exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early greek lyric and the poets of alexandriain his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at romethree books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authenticbook 1 mostly proclaims his love for 'delia', book 2 his passion for 'nemesis'the third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of tibullus himselffor consummate poetic artistry coupled with intensity of feeling catullus's poems have no rival in latin literaturebce), of equestrian rank and a friend of horace, enjoyed the patronage of marcus valerius messalla corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizesbut a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover cerinthus, while others purport to be her own compositionthe pervigilium veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literaturesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams
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