i dialoghi di platone, plato

Descripción: Venice: presso Giovanni Varisco e Compagni, 1574. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of three dialogues, some light foxing and browning, small rusthole in final leaf affecting three characters, ff. [xii], 327, [1], 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered vertically in ink, yapp edges, a bit ruckled, slightly marked, ties removed and front flyleaf lost, good The first translation into Italian (and probably into any vernacular language) of three of the most important Platonic dialogues - the Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito; Phaedo and Timaeus had been published in Italian before, the former by Figliucci in 1544 and the latter by Erizzo in 1557. This volume also includes a substantial commentary on the Phaedo by Erizzo and shorter notes on the other dialogues. The focus of the volume is Socrates’s final days, and amongst these five dialogues are four of the seven that are meant to occur between his accusation and death (the fifth is the Timaeus, which follows the Republic and is important in its own right for its natural philosophy and story of Atlantis). The Euthyphro is a discussion of piety that takes place during prelimary hearings; the Apology is Socrates’s speech at his own trial; the Crito discusses justice and injustice in Socrates’s prison cell; and the Phaedo deals with the afterlife on the day Socrates drinks the hemlock. Sebastian Erizzo (1525-1585) was a philosopher, author and numismatist, also important for his ‘Discourse concerning Ancient Medals’, which earned him a position as one of the fathers of numismatics in Italy. (Adams P1453; CNCE 40413; Moss II 454). Nº de ref. de la librería 48094