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CICERONE

Opera.

Venice: Francesco Pitteri, 1731

12 VOLUMES COMPLETE SET

8vo: 4 3/4 by 7" (175x115mm).

First title page printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces and initials, some chalcographic plates (occasional slight foxing).

Original vellum with manuscript titles on the spines

Very good interior, some wear of vellum

Text in Latin

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer

and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of

Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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