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Consolation of Philosophy, The by translated with introduction and explanatory notes by P.G. Walsh Boethius - First printing - 1999. - from Acequia Booksellers and Biblio.com

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An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. 475-525 AD) was also an exceptional Greek scholar. It was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, it is a dialogue that alternates from prose to verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made "The Consolation of Philosophy" hugely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante.

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"...[A] golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully."

Consolation of Philosophy, The

by Boethius, translated with introduction and explanatory notes by P.G. Walsh

First printing

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Book desription: Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover First printing Good in Good DJ 8vo, 171 pp. Small stains to fore-edge and front free endpaper, some underlining/marginalia in text. Jacket edgeworn.