‎COORNHERT, DIRCK VOLKERTSZOON - SENECA, LUCIUS ANNEUS.‎
‎Lucius Anneus Seneca Van de Weldaden. Leerende den rechten aert van broederlijcke liefe, getrouwe vrientschap en beleeftheyt. Voor allen staten seer nut om te lesen Uyt 't Latijn vertaelt Door Dirck Volckertsz Koornhart.‎

‎'t Amsterdam, By Jan Fredericksz Stam, 1644. Title within nice engraved ornamental border. 153 unnumbered pages + 3 blanks. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, handwritten title to spine. Muller 344 ("Fraai drukje van Matthys Perfect"); Scheepers ii, 365; De Vries 343. Second edition of this Dutch translation of Seneca's De Beneficiis. Important work by Seneca the Younger, born in Cordoba (Spain). De Beneficiis deals with themes of an ethical nature, within a context pertaining to concerns with regards to political leadership. As such, the work is concerned with the lives of aristocrats, and the nature of their relationships. This concern is of the form of and etiquette of bond-formation between persons by the giving and exchanging of gifts or services (favors), and is prescriptive of the way in which the aristocrats might behave, for the good of ancient Roman society. The translator, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522 - 29 October 1590), also known as Theodore Cornhert, was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, theologian and artist. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship. - On the last leaf, colophon: Ter Goude, By Matthijs Perfect, 1644. ‎

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