The scholar–book thief
16th October 2012
Here are two of Plutarch’s Moralia, published from twelfth-century manuscripts in the Synodal Library in Moscow in 1777 by the German philologist Christian Friedrich Matthäi, and dedicated to Ivan Shuvalov, the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment. In 1772, the 28-year-old Matthäi took up a teaching post in Moscow. Within four years he had become an associate professor […]
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