The copies that matter most are not always the cleanest ones. This mid-sixteenth-century Cologne edition of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Epistolae ad familiares survives as a working book, densely annotated by an early modern reader who approached Cicero not as a... Continue Reading →
It is my experience that is is not often that the printer's device matches the subject of the book, but in this case Opornius' device is fitting and optimistic for a History of the Fourth Crusade from the Byzatine perspective.... Continue Reading →
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