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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Scripta quae extant [...] Iani Gruteri & Fr. Iureti notis, & obseruationibus aucta [...]. Paris P. Chevalier for N. Buon February 1602 Folio: XXVIII [= 28]-668-42-[60]-216-[22] pp. (sl. toned). Contemp. sheep, gilt arms on covers, spine with raised bands and morocco label, red edges (rubbed, a few sm. def.). Very good copy. Extremely rare Paris ed. of the works of Seneca, with notes by Janus Gruterus (1560-1627) and (1553-1626), also including Erasmus' annotations (pp. 608-626) and "iudicium" (pp. XIII-XX). Large woodcut arms on title and part-title. General title printed in red and black. Text printed within ruled borders. Ref. USTC 6026682 (1: Arsenal). - Not in Erasmus Online. Prov. Collège d'Harcourt (Paris) prize binding with its gilt arms on covers and the initial "H" stamped 6 times on spine. With the prize awarded 27 July 1684 to Joseph-Omer Joly de Fleury (later "avocat-général au Parlement") and signed by canon Jean Le François, rector of Paris University. - Old name on title.

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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Scripta quae extant [...] Iani Gruteri & Fr. Iureti notis, & obseruationibus aucta [...]. Paris P. Chevalier for N. Buon February 1602 Folio: XXVIII [= 28]-668-42-[60]-216-[22] pp. (sl. toned). Contemp. sheep, gilt arms on covers, spine with raised bands and morocco label, red edges (rubbed, a few sm. def.). Very good copy. Extremely rare Paris ed. of the works of Seneca, with notes by Janus Gruterus (1560-1627) and (1553-1626), also including Erasmus' annotations (pp. 608-626) and "iudicium" (pp. XIII-XX). Large woodcut arms on title and part-title. General title printed in red and black. Text printed within ruled borders. Ref. USTC 6026682 (1: Arsenal). - Not in Erasmus Online. Prov. Collège d'Harcourt (Paris) prize binding with its gilt arms on covers and the initial "H" stamped 6 times on spine. With the prize awarded 27 July 1684 to Joseph-Omer Joly de Fleury (later "avocat-général au Parlement") and signed by canon Jean Le François, rector of Paris University. - Old name on title.

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Spanish school, after MANUEL DOMÍNGUEZ SÁNCHEZ (Madrid, 1840- 1906); XIX century. "Seneca, after opening his veins". Oil on panel. Measurements: 23.5 x 36 cm; 40 x 51 cm (frame). This work follows the models of the painting by Domínguez Sánchez, which is in the collection of the Prado Museum. The Museum describes the piece in this way "Manuel Domínguez chose a plot from ancient Rome, although linked to a great extent to the Hispanic world by having as its protagonist the Cordovan philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4-65 AD), master of Emperor Nero, who ordered his death accusing him of having participated in Pison's conspiracy against him. Mocking the execution of the imperial order as contempt for Nero, Seneca decided to take his own life. To do so, he opened his veins and got into a bathtub, although he finally died from inhaling the vapors of the bath. The success that this painting had in its time resided fundamentally in the modernity of the severe monumentality of its composition, as well as in its elegant simplicity in the disposition of the figures, of classical features, located in a wide interior space, of rich and grandiose architecture". The figures that compose it, harmony that can also be appreciated in the faces, serene, in the attitudes and in the palette chosen by the painter, very lively, but without excessive hallmarks in the coloring or in the light sources used. The historical theme of the painting is set in a glorious past related to the history of the painter's country, Spain, and can be related to the pictorial Historicism of the nineteenth century, the main current at the time, linked to the Academies of Fine Arts. The term "historicism" (Historismus) was coined by the German philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. Over time, what historicism is and how it is practiced has taken on different and divergent meanings. Elements of historicism appear in the writings of French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) and Italian philosopher GB Vico (1668-1744), and were more fully developed with the dialectics of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), influential in 19th-century Europe.

SÉNÈQUE (Lucius Annaeus Seneca): 1) Les oeuvres de l'Annaeus Seneca mises en françois par Matthieu de Chalvet. Rouen, Robert Vallentin, 1634. (12) ff. (including 1 blank)-555-(14) ff. (table of contents) ; (followed by). -2) Les controverses et suasoires de M. Annaeus Seneca, rhéteur. Rouen, Robert Vallentin, 1634, 326 pp. (actually 276, the pagination jumping without missing from 247 to 298). 2 works in 1 volume. 17 by 24 cm. Contemporary full vellum. Small worm hole on first cover, laces missing. Freckles, about twenty browned pages, light corner and marginal wetness on half the leaves. 1) The original edition of the translation is 1604. F. Hennebert, Histoire des traductions françaises d'auteurs grecs et latins pendant les XVIe et XVIIe siècles, pp. 151-152. This translation, although from the early 17th century, is still linked to the language of the previous century: "The language he speaks is still that of Amyot. [...] To judge him impartially, we must compare him with the writers whose traditions he has followed. The translation of the works of the Stoic philosophers in the early 17th century was a continuation of their appropriation by Christians. 2) The original edition dates from 1623. The author, Seneca the Rhetor, father of Seneca the Philosopher, gives a compilation of Latin rhetorical exercises: controversies and suasoires. The former were of the legal kind, aimed at proving the innocence or guilt of an accused person, while the latter were of the deliberative kind: advising the useful and advising against the harmful. The work is an important source for knowledge of Latin rhetoric.