ANACREON (570-485 BC). Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Parma: Bodoni, 1793. Wide-margined copy of this elegant edition of the poems of Anacreon, whose style, characterized by a suffused hedonism and dedicated to the pleasures of love, the joy of hedonism, and the abhorrence of war and sorrows, influenced 18th-century European poetics, leading to the development of an autonomous genre known as 'Anacreontic poetry. Brooks 487 4to, (303 x 220mm). 2 parts in 1 volume, uncut. Mid 19th century binding with calf spine, gilt title. Provenance: 'B. Calonghi, 1864 Parma' ownership inscription to endpapers. (1)

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