EDIT16, CNCE 28440; BM, Italian, 621; Graesse, VI, 356.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition in Italian containing the <\/span>de Benefizii<\/span><\/i> and the life of Seneca, bound for King Henry III.<\/span><\/p>\n It contains for the first time the life of the author written in Latin by Xicone Polentone and translated into Florentine by Giovanni di Tante. The Italian translation of De beneficiis<\/i> was written by Benedetto Varchi in 1554. He dedicated it to Eleonora de Toledo, Duchess of Florence and wife of Cosimo I de Medici. The translation achieved a broad circulation, reprinted in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de\u2019 Ferrari in 1564, and reprinted again in 1574. <\/p>\n Seneca’s Benefizii<\/i>, written between 56 and 64, is a treatise divided into seven books. The Roman philosopher addresses his friend, Aebutius Liberali, and gives a Stoic analysis of the ethical notions of gratitude, ingratitude and benefit, as well as numerous proposals for granting, receiving and returning benefits. It is not only the longest of Seneca’s works dealing with a single subject, but also the only complete work on what we now call \u2018gift exchange\u2019 to have survived from antiquity. Benefits <\/i>were of great personal importance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his last letters that philosophy taught above all how to deserve and return benefits well.<\/p>\n Henri III’s copy <\/span><\/p>\n This copy has a very luxurious binding in hazelnut morocco, certainly made by the workshop of Nicolas Eve, the King’s bookbinder 1578-1579 (see Fabienne Le Bars, reliures.bnf, for a binding in orange morocco with fleurs-de-lis).<\/p>\n At the court of Henry III, Seneca was read : “Mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment en Pologne, Henri avait resserr\u00e9 son amiti\u00e9 avec Guy Faur de Pibrac, son chancelier l\u00e0-bas, qui allait, philologue lui-m\u00eame, l’initier \u00e0 la philosophie du moraliste latin [S\u00e9n\u00e8que]. … Depuis l’av\u00e8nement d’Henri, Monsieur de Pibrac \u00e9tait devenu l’un des grands s\u00e9n\u00e9cisants du royaume et il para\u00eet que la perte de son exemplaire personnel de S\u00e9n\u00e8que, annot\u00e9 patiemment de sa main, fut grande et irr\u00e9parable. […] En 1583, le seigneur Pressac offre \u00e0 Henri du S\u00e9n\u00e8que \u00e0 son tour, et, lui aussi, en fran\u00e7ais.” (Se\u0301ne\u0300que, lecture royale sous le dernier Valois Franc\u0327ois Pre\u0301chac. In: Bulletin de l\u2019Association Guillaume Bude\u0301 : Lettres d\u2019humanite\u0301, n\u00b09, mars 1950, pages 185-205).<\/span><\/p>\n “Henri III aimait beaucoup les livres, comme tous les Valois, et fit travailler pour lui Nicolas et Clovis Eve” (OHR).<\/p>\n Henri III, King of France (1551-1589), was the recipient of many presentation copies, often richly decorated with his coat of arms or emblems. He also commissioned the first bindings for the Order of the Holy Spirit, of which he was the founder, in December 1578. He also had a personal library, for which he favoured bindings with fleur-de-lys and foliate spandrels, in addition to simple bindings. <\/p>\n Henri III (1551-1589), son of Henri II and Catherine de M\u00e9dicis, was elected King of Poland in 1573 and crowned King of France in 1573. The last king of the Valois dynasty, he was assassinated in 1589.<\/p>\n Small stains on the binding, oxidised silver decoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 12mo (153 x 95 mm) 16 unn.l, 304 pp. Contemporary light brown morocco, triple silver fillet framing covers, central coat of arms of Henri III (OHR, 2491), flat spine, compartments decorated with a fleur-de-lis, silver edges, in a modern blue cloth slipcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":84762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1270,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-84771","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-armoured","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"pa_auteur-seneca-lucius-annaeus-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Lucius Annaeus SENECA","chapeau":"Henry III's copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Florence, Giunta, 1574","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n