[Cicero] M. Tullii Ciceronis, Demostenis, Ac Isocratis, Necnon aliorum veterum Oratorum, Philosophorum, & Poetarum Sententiae Insigniores, Apophthegmata, & Similia. Venice 1573, old-print in good state of preservation, incomplete parchment cover, p. 560, dimensions 7.5 x 14 cm, beautiful printer's signet on title page and at end of book, numerous typographical ornaments in text.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin: Marcus Tullius Cicero), otherwise Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) - writer, speaker, politician, military commander, philosopher, jurist and Roman priest. As a politician and leader at the head of the party defending the Roman republic against Caesar, Antony and Octavian, he failed. As a speaker and writer, admired even by his enemies, he was already a great success during his lifetime.