Homeri Opera Graeco-Latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia: Hoc est: Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, et Hymni: praeterea Homeri uita ex Plutarcho, cum Latina item interpretation,…

This is a chiefly overlooked and under-recognized volume of Homer that was translated and extensively edited and annotated by one of the most important sixteenth century scholars and Christian reformers.

Greek and Latin in parallel columns.

Sébastien Castellio (1515-1563) was one of the most important Christian humanist thinkers of the sixteenth century and an important early advocate for religious toleration, freedom of conscience and thought. Born in Saint-Martin-du-Frêne, France and educated in Lyon, he taught in Geneva until his conflicts with John Calvin led him to leave in 1544. He next moved to Basel, where this book was published, where he lived until his death.

Castellio wrote his first works on religious toleration following the execution of Michael Servetus for heresy in 1553. Although better known as a translator of the Bible into both Latin and French, this is the first edition of his translation and editing of the works of Homer from the Greek into Latin, published only two years before his death in 1563. Also of considerable interest is Castellio's Latin translation of Plutarch's life of Homer.

Numerous annotations and underlining in early hand. Title page with small "bookworm" hole with no loss of text. Paper throughout toned with signs of water exposure. Book plate of Reverend Theophilus Smith (1800 - 1853) on front pastedown. Owners signature and date on verso of first front flyleaf.

10 preliminary leaves, 292, 317 pages.

Copy incomplete. Volume bound with an extra page 151/152 of the Odyssey instead of page 239/240 of In Apollinem.

Few scattered OCLC holdings in North America, none in Texas.