Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship.

CICERO. [TRANSLATED BY E. S. SHUCKBURGH],.

Item Number: 135960

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927.

Finely bound English translation of Cicero’s Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship. Octavo, bound in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling and central vignette to the panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero's wrote more than three-quarters of extant Latin literature that is known to have existed in his lifetime, and it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical Roman culture.