136 - HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as). Carmina.

HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as). Carmina. Luxurious Strasbourg edition of the "Odes" by the epicurean poet Horace, in a fine binding in the Bozerian taste. Strasbourg, Georges Treuttel, 1788. In folio, full glazed calf, bound in the Bozerian style, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons surrounded by gilt lozenges, with gilt neoclassical-style fillets and garlands and red leather title-piece, boards framed with gilt roulettes, gilt roulettes on spines and bands, gilt edges. In Latin, VII and 380 pp. A few stains and scratches on the boards, head and spine rubbed, a few brown spots, mainly on the endpapers, a wet spot on the title page. Luxurious Strasbourg edition of the "Odes" by the Epicurean poet Horace, in a fine binding in the taste of Bozerian. Printed on heavy paper. Text by Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735-1806), French philologist and archaeologist from Alsace, Doctor of Philosophy and librarian at the University of Strasbourg. With his "Odes", Horace abandons the satirical style in favor of a lyricism tinged with self-mockery. The poet abandons the iambe and the dactylic hexameter to adopt the major asclepiad verse, characteristic of lyric poetry, and the alkaic stanza (of four lines), which is virtually unheard of since. While singing of the glory of Rome and Augustus' policy of pacification, Horace praises the happiness of an Epicurean life, sheltered from the torments of the world and the vain pleasures of ambition and wealth. He formulates the famous "Carpe diem", to which Epicurean philosophy is sometimes hastily summed up. In it, the poet portrays himself as a swan taking flight with a solemnly burlesque emphasis. Superb binding in the Bozerian style, very fresh inside.