Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis …
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First folio edition of Terence's comedies by Robert Estienne. The printer had already produced a small, octavo edition of Terence's works in 1526. Confident in its success, and through access to an excellent and ancient manuscript of the fourth-century commentary by Aelius Donatus, 'in 1529 he published a more ambitious edition of the comedies with the commentaries of Donatus' (Elizabeth Armstrong).
The fortune of Terence in Western culture was uninterrupted, made secure by a continuous didactic use of his texts by the clergy. Such fortune and dissemination lent this author, who by his name is believed to be the first writer of the African diaspora, exceptional influence on Renaissance and early-modern literature. No playwright of the Shakespearian age, for example, would be exempt from Terentian echoes if not direct references. Terence's plays were part of the set Latin syllabus of the neoclassical age. United States President John Adams once wrote to his son 'Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model' (D. McCullough, John Adams, New York, 2001, p. 259).
Adam, T 322; Renouard 30, n. 16; Schreiber 39 (calls for 178 leaves only); Armstrong, Robert Estienne, royal printer: an historical study of the elder Stephanus, p. 79.
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- Bernard Quaritch Ltd (GB)
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- G758
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- Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis …
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- TERENTIUS
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- Robert Estienne
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- Paris
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- 1529
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- 0.00 libras
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