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Copertina rigida. Condizione: Come nuovo. XX, 276 p. ; 19 x 12 cm. Poeti di Roma. Le "Elegie", in quattro libri, nei quali si distribuiscono i novantadue componimenti complessivi, tutti in distici elegiaci. L'avvicinamento di Sesto Properzio a Mecenate e al suo famoso circolo avvenne forse nel 28 a.C., dopo la pubblicazione del primo canzoniere. Il poeta fu amico di Virgilio e, soprattutto, di Ovidio. La sua vita fu breve (come quella di Catullo e di Tibullo). Non sono presenti nei suoi versi riferimenti cronologici posteriori al 16 a.C., data probabile della morte. Il successo di Properzio come poeta fu immediato e duraturo e la sua poesia ebbe un notevole influsso sulla lirica dei secoli successivi. Nel Medioevo le tracce della sua presenza sono deboli e sporadiche. Fu però rivalutato dalla poesia umanistica. Con Ariosto, Tasso, Pierre de Ronsard e, soprattutto, nel Settecento neoclassico, la poesia di Properzio conobbe più ampia diffusione e fortuna, per toccare - con Goethe - il suo punto più alto. Testo latino a fronte e traduzione in versi italiani di Giuseppe Lipparini. Legatura editoriale, coperta in cartone rigido telato di colore rosso, titolo riquadrato impresso in oro al dorso, muto il piatto. Logo della casa editrice impresso in oro al piatto. Sovraccoperta illustrata a colori in carta plastificata opaca con alette. .
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Da: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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Editore: K.G. Saur Verlag, 1998
ISBN 10: 359871372XISBN 13: 9783598713729
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Da: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from [Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana] edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 539.
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1838 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 712 Language: German,Latin.
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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Data di pubblicazione: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1869 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 844 Language: French.
Editore: Le Jay, libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, au Grand Corneille, Amsterdam; Paris, 1772
Da: Libreria Scripta Manent, ALBENGA, SV, Italia
Pagine: XXIV+611 . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Cartonato in pelle marrone, con cinque nervature, titoli e fregi in oro con tassello in pelle rossa. Piccola mancanza di pelle al bordo del piatto superiore. Tagli marmorizzati . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Interno molto fresco, Testo in francese e latino, a fronte. Foto disponibili .
Editore: PER AGOSTINO MILANESE, (Al colophon) IN VENETIA, 1544
Da: Il Cartiglio di Roberto Cena srlu, TORINO, TO, Italia
Legatura dell`inizio del XIX secolo in piena pelle a grana grossa di color avana, bordure e supralibros in oro al piatto anteriore, dentelle interne e tagli dorati. 11 carte non numerate con mancanza dell`ultima, bianca. Al frontespizio, titolo iscritto entro elegante cornice tipografica a silografia. Prima rarissima edizione della traduzione in volgare, redatta dal Reverendo Bacillieri. Nel 1550 ne seguì una seconda pubblicata a Firenze da Giunta e redatta da Belprato, in cui aggiunse la traduzione dell`Assioco di Platone. Esemplare in eccellenti condizioni conservative.
Editore: Janssonio-Waesbergios and Jacobum à Poolsum, Amsterdam, 1733
Da: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Full 18th-century vellum, front board cracking but holding (at the moment); stamped in gilt to both covers with central armorial device of rampant lion a bend checky, surmounted by ducal crown, supported by pair of lions (British peer?), spine gilt in seven compartments and titled AURELIUS VICTOR CURANTE ARNTZEMIO, speckled edges; light edgewear. 4to (248 x 200mm). Engraved frontispiece, XLVI, 668, 134 p., engraved plate, numerous engraved coins throughout text.
Editore: Janssonio-Waesbergios & Jacobum a Poolsum MDCCXXXIII (1733),, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) & Trajecti Batav (Utrecht), 1733
Da: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
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First Printing of This Edition. Quarto, contemporary full blind-stamped vellum, black leather title label on spine lettered in gilt. [48], 668, [134] pages. Engraved Frontispiece, title leaf printed in red & black with intaglio vignette, one additional full-page engraved plate [41] pp preliminaries, + 668 pp + [134] pp Index at rear; numerous coins and medals engraved intaglio within text, reproducing the portraits of the main characters in the history of Rome. Magnificent printing with diverse fonts to differentiate the texts and notes. Original binding of the period in full vellum with ornate centerpiece in blind on front and rear panels. Vellum darkened; corners knocked a bit, front hinge slightly split alone outer edge and with some signs of old repair but holding very tightly (the cords intact, the split is cosmetic); ink name dated 1852 at head of title and another in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1880. A Magnificent Book. Probably the most beautiful edition that brings together the different works of the Roman historian and politician Aurelius Victor (c. 320 - c. 390). The commentaries are by the most illustrious philologists and historians headed by the editor Jan Arntzenius (1702-1759), Johannes Metellus (1520-1597), Andreas Shottus (1579), Fredericus Sylburgius (1536-1596) and Anna Fabri (1645-1727). ).
Data di pubblicazione: 1588
Da: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1588. (illustratore). Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1588. Influential Commentaries on the Code and Digest Cujas, Jacques [1522-1590]. [Justinian I (483-565 CE), Emperor of the East]. Paratitla in Libros Quinquaginta Digestorum Seu Pandectarum, Item in Libros Novem Codicis Imperatoris Iustiniani. Ex Postrema Auctoris Recognitione. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, Sub Monocerote, 1588. [xxviii], 195, [1]; [xxxvi], 541 (i.e. 521) pp. Two parts, each with title page and individual pagination, second part has title beginning Paratitla in Libros IX. Codicis Iustiniani. [Bound with] Cujas, Jacques. Africanus, Sextus Caecilius [2nd C.]. Ad Africanum Tractatus VIIII. Quibus Difficillimae Iuris Quaestiones Enodantur. Ex Postrema Auctoris Recognitione, Castigate Editi. Accesserunt Indices Duo Copiosi, Quorum Prior est Legum Africani, Alter Materiarum. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, Sub Monocerote, 1588. [xlviii], 622 (i.e. 624) pp. Octavo (6-1/4" x 4"). Elaborately blind-tooled half blind-stamped pigskin over vellum with horizontal, vertical and diagonal rules, binding dated 1592, raised bands and faint early hand-lettered title to spine. Moderate soiling, some rubbing to boards, heavier rubbing to extremities with wear to corners, spine ends bumped, front hinge cracked, front free endpaper lacking. Moderate toning, light browning in places, brief early annotations to a few leaves and title pages, later owner stamps and markings to front pastedown and title page of Paratitla in Libros Quinquaginta Digestorum. $1,750. * Later editions. Cujas, a professor of law at the universities of Cahors, Bourges, Valencia and Turin, was the preeminent authority on Roman law in his day. The author of several commentaries, he was also an important philologist who recovered and published the Codex Theodosianus and the Basilica. The first work in this volume contains important commentaries on first nine books of the Code, the twelve-book legal code established by Justinian I, and the 50th book of the Digest, a 50-volume collection of judicial commentary, that were originally published separately in 1569 and 1570. Both remained standard works into the nineteenth century. Ad Africanum Tractatus VIIII. is a commentary on the Quaestiones of Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a collection of legal cases included in.
Editore: [Amsterdam], 1725
Da: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 18mo bound in 12s. Full vellum. Title on spine. Bound together with Pensees Secretes Divisees en deux Parties; Premiere Partie, Reflexiones sur la Religion, avec des Resolutions pratiques quie en sont tirees. Second Partie, Reflexiones sur la Vie Chretienne &c. Amsterdam: Wetseins & Smith, 1731. Book I: [30] 434 p.p., incl. frontis of Empiricus. Tear to title page previously repaired with new paper. Book II, Premiere Partie: xiv, [8], 245 p.p., incl. frontis; Second Partie: [14] 286 p.p. Title on spine slightly faded. Some yellow stains to front and rear board. Edges bumped. vellum slightly wowed along foredge.Pages browned with foxing. Lacks front and rear endpapers, but otherwise in very good condition. Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrronism, or Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (PH) is divided into three books. "PH I is a complete description of Pyrrhonian Skepticism, stating what it is that makes one qualify as a Pyrrhonian skeptic (the possession of a certain skill) and what the pay-off for being a Skeptic is (tranquillity). In PH II and III, Sextus lays out the positions of Dogmatic philosophers on issues of logic (PH II), and physics and ethics (PH III)." [Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy. Empiricus Sextus]. William Beverdige was an English clergyman and writer. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1653, where he was interested in languages.In 1658, he published a treatise on Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan, together with a Grammar of the Syriac Language. He was ordained in January, 1660. In 1683, he gave a highly succesful and moving sermon on the anniversary of the Great Fire of London. Beverdige served as Bishop of St. Asaph in Wales, from 1604 until his death in 1708.
Editore: Henricus Petri, Basel, 1530
Da: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. TWO SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of both works and some underscoring in the Tibullus. The three most famous Roman elegiac poets together with the great Roman satirist.
Editore: Firenze, heirs of Filippo Giunta 27 October 1522, Firenze, 1522
Da: Libreria Alberto Govi di F. Govi Sas, Modena, Italia
Condizione: Buono (Good). Three parts in one volume, 8vo (168x95 mm). [4], 4 [recte 5]-192 [but 191], 24, [20] leaves. With many errors in foliation. Collation: AA8 A-Z8 a-c8 2AA-BB8 CC4. Lacking the blank CC3. The quire K is wrongly signed I. Printer's device on title page and on l. CC4v. The colophon on l. CC2r calls for a quire d that in fact was never printed. Printed in small italic type, spaces left for capitals with guide letters, 140 woodcuts (one repeat) of varying sizes throughout text depicting ground plans, ancient buildings, columned courtyards, ornaments, instruments, machines, diagrams, including the celebrated ?human proportion? 19th-century marbled boards with lettering piece on spine (worn, front joint weakened). Small stain affecting the bottom margin of several leaves, tiny worm track to the upper margin of about 8 leaves (quire L) not touching text, some light staining throughout, all in all a more than decent copy. This is a new typesetting, in italics, of the second illustrated edition of the De architectura decem libri by the Roman architect Vitruvius, i.e. the 1513 Giunta edition edited by Giovanni Giocondo, with the woodcuts from the same blocks. Errors of the earlier edition are here corrected. The De architectura decem libri (?Ten Books on Architecture') was composed between 31 and 27 BC, and is the only complete treatise on architecture to have survived from Antiquity. The work circulated widely in manuscript and was first printed at Rome in 1486/87. The first illustrated Vitruvius was published at Venice in 1511, a large volume issued from the printing press of Giovanni Tacuino and skillfully prepared by the Franciscan friar and competent philologian Giovanni Giocondo (ca. 1433-1515), who was active as an architect and engineer in Naples, Paris, Venice, and Rome. The Vitruvius' text was then substantially reprinted by Filippo Giunta in 1513, in a volume in smaller and easily portable format: the Giuntina of 1513 is the first book on architecture in octavo size ever printed and opens with Giocondo's dedicatory epistle to Giuliano de' Medici, originally appended to the Tacuino edition (and still present in the 1522 reprint). The Giunta Vitruvius is supplemented with the treatise on aqueducts (De aquae ductu urbis Romae) by Sextus Iulius Frontinus, which also circulated autonomously. Both Giunta editions contain - cut in reduced size - the series of 136 woodcuts of the 1511 Tacuino Venice edition, to which are added four new subjects. Pettas, 188; Edit 16, CNCE28778; Sander, 7697; Fowler, 396; Berlin Katalog, 1800; Cicognara, 699; Adams, V-904; Decia-Delfiol, 172.
Editore: [apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium], Venice, 1558
Da: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. With three divisional title pages, all featuring the Aldine dolphin and anchor device. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small hole in pigskin at head of spine, wear at extremities), signed "A.S.K." and dated 1562 on the upper board. Title page lightly soiled, intermittent mild foxing, light marginal staining in places. A few manuscript notes and underscores. The binding: decorated with blind-stamped images of Apollo (with harp)and the Muses: Caliope (with zither), Thalia (with lute), Euterpe (with horn), Terpsichore (with viola). The Euterpe stamp is signed "S.N.", that of Terpsichore is dated "1549". The binding is probably the work of the Wittenberg binder Conrad Neidel (active 1542-15602), see Haebler, Vol. I, p. 308. This edition marks the second appearance of the celebrated commentary of Marc Antoine Muret, "the most important commentary on Catullus since that of Parthenius in 1485."(Gaiser). Muret, who had fled France to avoid trial for homosexuality, prepared his commentary while taking refuge in Italy with Paul Manutius. Muret was the first commentator to pair Sappho's Greek poem "Phainetai moi kênos îsos theoisin"(Sappho 31) with Catullus' poem 51, "Ille mi par esse deo videtur", which Catullus based on Sappho's poem. "In 1552 Muret lectured on Catullus and other Latin poets in Paris, perhaps at the College du Cardinal Lemoine or the College de Boncourt. Included in his large and enthusiastic audiences were several poets of the Pléiade -most notably Ronsard, his friend and near contemporary. Muret's lectures created a fashion for Catullan poetry. His own neo-Latin collection, Juvenilia (1552), contains several Catullan imitations, but Catullus is still more important in the poetry of the Pléiade, much of which appeared close on the heels of his lectures."(Gaiser) Late in 1553 Muret was forced to leave Paris, where he was persecuted for being a homosexual. Earlier in the year he had been accused of "unnatural vice" and imprisoned at the fortress of Châtelet "and would have died of starvation had his friends not intervened to secure his release. Disgraced at Paris and reduced to poverty, he fled to Toulouse, where he eked out a living by giving lessons in law. He was accused a second time of having committed sodomy, in this instance with a young man named L. Memmius Frémiot, and on the advice of a councilor he absconded once more. He was sentenced to death in absentia and burned in effigy with Frémiot in the Place Saint-Georges as a Huguenot and sodomite. He crossed the Alps in disguise and was warmly received for a time in Venice, while in France his memory was ceaselessly vilified." (Warren Johansson) Soon after arriving in Venice, in May 1554, Muret was befriended by Paul Manutius, who, learning of his enthusiasm for Catullus, persuaded him to produce a commentary. Muret went to work and completed the task in a little less than three months, as he says in the dedication, dated October 15, 1554. "Since Muret had been in Venice only a few months, his commentary on Catullus was no doubt largely drawn from the Paris lectures. His notes display a combination of learning and poetic sophistication that would have appealed to the Pléiade. More than any of his predecessors except Valerianus, he discusses the artistic qualities of Catullus' work and the details of vocabulary and meter that work together to secure an effect. He appends a poem of his own in galliambics to his discussion of the meter in Cat. 63, discusses the appropriateness of the similes in Cat. 68 (which he regards as perhaps the most beautiful elegy in Latin) and discourses on the delight of studying Catullus' 'translations' in close conjunctions with their Greek models. He is the first commentator to print Sappho's poem with Cat. 51 (see folio 57), and he laments the loss of Callimachus' 'lock of Berenice' in the discussion of Cat. 66 and prints all the fragments of that poem known to him. "Muret is interested in the text, but he is cautious about emendations and adamant in refusing to admit modern conjectures and supplements, no matter how apposite. Muret's commentary was the first to be published since that of Guarinus in 1521 and the most important since that of Parthenius in 1485." (Gaisser, "Catullus", CTC Vol. VII, pp. 260-261) "Previous writers, Parthenius, Palladius, Avancius, Guarinus, had concerned themselves only with the elucidation of textual and grammatical difficulties. Muret pays far more attention to the literary and aesthetic side of Catullus' poems than any other commentator of the period. It is clear that he is professionally interested, as a poet himself and the teacher of poets, in Catullus' mastery of his art. He makes quite a number of literary and aesthetic judgements and these, sporadic and unsystematic though they are, form precious evidence of the sixteenth century attitude to Catullus. "On Catullus LI, the translation of Sappho's ode, Muret remarks: 'What man is there, at least amongst those who have some feeling for literature and culture, who does not derive the keenest pleasure in comparing the lines of that woman who far surpasses all men in this genre, and those of the most voluptuous of all the Latin poets?' ("poetae Latinorum omnium mollissimi.") Similarly on Catullus' Coma Berenices (LXVI) he bewails the loss of Callimachus' elegy on the same theme, which deprives posterity of the pleasure of comparing the great Greek poet with Catullus 'Latinorum poetarum sine controversia politissmus'." (Fitzgerald, Catullus and the Reader, the Erotics of Poetry). SECOND EDITION WITH MURET'S COMMENTARY (1st 1554).
Editore: Bonetus Locatellus, per Octavianus Scotus, 9 December, Venice, 1491
Da: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. [Bound with]: Statius, Publius Papinius (b. ca. 45-50 - d. ca. 96) Statii Achilleida cum comm. Ioannis Britannici Brescia: per Iacobum Brtitannicum, 21 May 1485 Folio: 29 x 19.6 cm. Two works bound as one. I. [158] lvs. (the last leaf blank). Collation: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8, t-x6. II. [28] lvs. (the first leaf blank). Collation: A4, a-d6. Bound in attractive 18th c. blonde calf, spine richly gilt with floral tools and morocco label; board edges also gilt (light wear, corners bumped). Fine, crisp copies with minor blemishes as follows: I. Title lightly soiled, marginal dampstain to the first three lvs., leaf l1, leaf g6, and a few lvs. in gathering h; 4 lvs. in gathering e and bifolium f1/8 lightly browned (f1/8 with light ink stain). II. Light dampstain blank margin. Both books with woodcut initials. First work with Octavian Scotus' printer's device on the final leaf. From the library of the French poet and journalist Frédéric Plessis (1851-1942), with his label "ex-libris Fridericus Plessis" on the front fly-leaf. This volume comprises two incunabula. The first is the 1491 edition of the Roman elegiac poets, Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus, with the commentaries of (respectively) Antonio Partenio (1456-1506), Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1453-1505) and Berardino Cillenio (b. ca. 1450) of Verona. The second is the 1485 Brescia edition of Statius's "Achilleid", an unfinished epic poem on the life of Achilles, with the commentary of the humanist Giovanni Britannico (fl. 1470-1518). Catullus and Parthenius: The commentary of Parthenius on Catullus is particularly important. His work was "not only the first but also the most important of the fifteenth-century commentaries on Catullus. He made significant improvements to the text and explained Catullan style and usage with parallels from a wide range of ancient authors, both Greek and Latin, including among others, Cicero, Vergil, Martial, Pliny Ovid, Lucretius, Donatus, Homer, and Sappho. He was also interested in interpreting the poems and successfully emended and explained several that had previously seemed pointless. The commentary was hailed in verse by several of Parthenius' fellow citizens and other contemporaries, including Iacobus Iuliarius and Hieronymus Bononius." (Gaiser) Statius' Interrupted Epic: "Any judgment upon [the 'Achilleid'] is difficult, since the text we have (interrupted by the author's death) deals only with episodes of the young Achilles on Scyros. The plan of narrating all of Achilles' life (1.4 ff.) suggests large literary ambitions. Statius, had he been able to continue, would have found himself facing Homer. And beginning with its title the work seems, even more than Statius' 'Thebaid', to be heading towards a perilous confrontation with the ghost of its father Virgil."(Conte).