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Boethius

Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century

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Philosophy

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  • The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.
  • A woman wearing a crown and a dress covered with the letter F, walks inside an open loggia where she is followed by two men; representing Fortune. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after an unidentified artist.

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  • The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.

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    De consolatione philosophiae / [Boethius].

    Boethius, -524. | Date: [1491]
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    Two treatises. In the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in way of discovery, of the immortality of reasonable soules.

    Boethius, -524. | Date: 1644
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    [Opera] / [Boethius].

    Boethius, -524. | Date: 10 February 1497[1498]-8 July 1499
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    Boetius de philosophico consolatu siue de consolatio[n]e philosophi[a]e: cu[m] figur[is] ornatissimis nouit[er] expolit[us].

    Boethius, -524 | Date: Anno incarnationis d[omi]ni millesimo quingentesimo primo, kalendas vero. viii. septe[m]bris [8 September 1501]
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    The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.

    Boethius, -524. | Date: [1858] | Reference: 91i

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