Title: Paraclesis; or, consolations deduced from Natural and Revealed Religion
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [8], xxi, [1], 357 (p. 116 called 17), [3] (blank). Calf. Tooled gilded spine. Each part has a divisional title page. Plate and signature of Montgomery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Contains three dissertations: Consolation from natural religion By M.T. Cicero; rendered into English by Thomas Blacklock; Revealed religion proper consolation of human life By Thomas Blacklock; A letter to a friend [by Thomas Blacklock].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first part is a translation of Sigonio’s ‘Ciceronian’ Consolatio, with an introductory essay urging its authenticity. See Bib# 4102812/Fr# 284 in this collection for the 1583 Bologna edition of Sigonio’s notorious forgery of Cicero, which revealed Carlo Sigonio’s ‘editorship’ of the Consolatio.
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