EUTROPIUS FLAVIUS, Romana historia universa, PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS, De Rebus Gothorum. Basel 1531-32.
Eutropii insigne volumen quo Romana historia universa describitur ex diversorum authorum monumentis collecta. Quanto vero maior codicum sinceritas eo tempore fuit quam est hodie itaque non pacua leguntur hic emendatius multo quam in aeditionibus quorundam historicorum quae vulgo circumferuntur. Id docebit vel Sex. Aurelij Victoris libellus, ut de epitome Eutropij ad Valentem Aug. sileantur. Additae sunt Graecorum imperatorum vitae, de rebus in Oriente et Constantinopoli, persia, Arabiaque gestis de quibus hactenus Latinis parum constabat. Quidam Annales Constantinopolitanos appellant. Opus indignu certè quod in tenebris tam diu delituerint. Pauli Diaconi Aquileiensis de gestis Langobardorum Libri VI.
Ensis de rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, una cum aliis mediorum temporum histories, quorum catalogum sequens indicabit pagina. His omnibus accessit rerum copiosissimus index.
First Edition and first Latin translation of the Greek original by Cristoforo Persona (1416-1485) and Raffaele Maffei (1455-1522). Very rare.
Bound in one volume. 19-th century half binding in leather. 21,5 x 31 cm.
Wear, stains, first three pages with worming.
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Flavius Eutropius was a Roman historian who flourished in the latter half of the 4th century. He held the office of secretary (magister memoriae) at Constantinople, accompanied the Emperor Julian on his expedition against the Persians.
Procopius was a Greek historian of the first half of the sixth century, he held various important positions in Byzantium, secretary of Belisarius Prefect of Byzantium. His writings mark the transition between classical Greek literature and Byzantine Greek literature, and make history into a new vision.