Bidspirit auction | 1588 CICERO NIZOLIUS SIVE THESAURUS

1588 CICERO NIZOLIUS SIVE THESAURUS CICERONIANUS ANTIQUE FOLIO 16TH CENTURY - (CICERO). NIZOLIUS [MARIUS]. NIZOLIUS SIVE THESAURUS CICERONIANUS, Caelli Secundi Curionis labore olim auctus, Marcelli subinde Squarcialupi studio mactus digestusque. Nunc demum à Jacobo Cellario Augustano, insigni tum simplicum tum compositorum verborumaccessione locupletatus. Cum Indice Ciceronianarum vocum Barbaris substitutarum auctiore & diversatum Ciceronis Editionum fideli Collatione. Lugduni, Apud Antonium de Harsy; 1588 Calf binding. Rebacked. Newer endpapers. Missing upper right corner of the title page. Otherwise very good condition Folio, 9 by 14 1/4” 1545 pages First published in 1535 under the title ”Observationes in Ciceronem” this massive work of erudition doesn't function like a modern thesaurus to find alternatives to pedestrian words or to help avoid repetition, but rather as a dictionary of words used by Cicero in his works. ”Iuba, ” for example, might stump some scholars, but Nizzoli is standing by to tell us (in Latin, of course) that ”iuba” is the hair that hangs from the necks of horses. Then, after the definition (as in the case of all the other words), Nizzoli quotes phrases from different works of Cicero in which ”iuba” appears. To create such a work required an extraordinary effort, and the title page tells us that the augmenting of it by a fourth part was itself a Herculean labor. Like his beloved Cicero, Mario Nizzoli (1498-1566) was a humanist philosopher, and went so far as to denounce Saint Thomas Aquinas and other scholastics for their ”monstrous ideas and barbarous [and of course un-Ciceronian] language.” Text in Latin. Ex-library (with ex-libris to front pastedown) Please make all inquiries before bidding. All lots are sold ”as-is”, refer to our T&C. Helios Auctions will ship all lots domestically for $25.00 per lot. Combined and international shipping are available. The rates will be provided upon request.