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The Second Punick War between Hannibal and the Romanes : the whole in seventeen books Englished ... with a continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal / by Thomas Ross 1661
45.0 x 6.0 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1054095
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Silius Italicus was a first century AD Roman orator and poet. Only one of his works has survived to the present, his 17-book history of the Second Punic War, Punica. It is the longest poem to survive from Antiquity and describes Rome’s third century BC war with Carthage and the invasion of Italy by the Carthaginian leader Hannibal. Punica was rediscovered at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini. It was first printed in 1471. This English edition, translated by Thomas Ross, was printed in London in 1661.
Provenance
Acquired for the Royal Library by William Nicol at the sale of the Library of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford (1766-1827) on 17th Dec 1835: Lot 284, Price -12s.
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45.0 x 6.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))
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[Punica. English]