Chapter 80 famous bibliophile
Owen Browin
"The Famous Bibliophile" is a short essay, the original author Irving Browin's life experience is unknown, and it is translated from "The Book Lover's Pleasure Wheel" selected by William Targer.The famous bibliophiles mentioned by Bulwin here are not those famous for collecting books, but those celebrities with bibliophilia, from Greek and Roman emperors, philosophers, writers, and even ladies.
The mania for collecting books is not a recent disease, but has probably existed as long as books have been available, and has infected many of the wisest and most powerful men in history.The Greek poet Euripides was once mocked by Aristophanes for his bibliophilia in The Children.Of the Roman emperors, Gordian, who arose in the third century (perhaps not yet, for he was killed after thirty-six days on the throne), Gibbon said, "Twenty-two Concubine Ji and the 60,000-volume collection of books show the many aspects of his hobbies.) This combination of obsession with literary taste seems to be pinned on another emperor in a later period—Henry VIII— The reason why he spent ten thousand and eight hundred pounds on jewels during the three years, and only £100 on books and bindings during the same period, is explained to be Much of his library collection was obtained from plundering the monastery, and Henry had printed several volumes of his anti-Luther works on parchment. Cicero of Rome, who had in his Villa Tuscorian an excellent library, especially rich in Greek writings, once described his beloved collection thus: "Books that increase the wisdom of youth, books that please old age, decorate Prosperity, the book that shelters and comforts us in our adversity, the book that brings enjoyment home, the book that keeps us company when we go out, the book that spends our evenings with us, travels with us, and goes to the country with us.” The poet Petrarch, who collected books not only to satisfy his own hobbies, but also wanted to become the founder of a permanent library in Venice, donated his books to St. Mark's Church, but most of them were lost due to preservation negligence Only a small number survived. In anticipation of his early death, the author of the book, Bao Jiaqiu, once entrusted his book collection to his dear friend Beatrak, asking him to guarantee the integrity of the collection according to his own conditions. The poet promised that if he died later than Bao Jiaqiu, He must have looked after the collection; but Boccacio outlived Beatrarch, and he bequeathed his library to the Augustinian monastery in Florence, part of which is still available to visitors at Laurentians. See you in the library in the ground.According to Bao Jiaqiu's own account of his collection of books, we must believe that his collection of books must be very unsuitable for the library of the monastery, and the well-meaning monks may have sent most of them to the stake of the heretics, just like "Ji He What happened to the story collections of rangers in "The Legend of Germany" is ordinary.Perhaps these cynical novelists intended his gift as a dark irony. The walls of the room which formerly housed the essayist Montaigne's library are still exhibited to the pilgrims, with inscriptions branded on the beams and rafters by the eccentric and lovely vignette with a branding iron. The author of "The Saxon Heroes After the Raid" adorned his magnificent library with a complete suit of armor, and filled it with works of monsters and witchcraft.The satirical author of "Gulliver's Travels", Swift, has the habit of annotating his books, and likes to write on the title page his general opinion on the author's evaluation. No matter what books he has, he seems to have no Shakespeare, too, cannot be found anywhere in Swift's nineteen volumes. Soldiers always seem to have a passion for books.Not to mention Julius Caesar's taste in literary rhetoric, the "first person in ancient and modern times" Frederick the Great had libraries in Sansuke, Potsdam, and Berlin, and he arranged the books according to categories, regardless of the size of the format.For books that are too thick, he disassembles them and divides them into several volumes for easy reading. His favorite works of French writers are sometimes reprinted into fine print according to his taste. General Conti of France had inherited from his father a valuable library, which he cherished and enlarged.General Marlborough of England had twenty-five love-printed books on parchment, all of which were rare before 1496. General Juno, the general under Napoleon, who was brave and good at fighting, had a collection of parchment books, which sold for fourteen hundred pounds in London.And his great master, busy as he was with the conquest of Europe, not only did not forget to take comfort in his own permanent collection, and in the books which he always carried with him on expeditions. He even planned, and has already begun to print, a series of books for the march, all in twelve-format small volumes, with no margins and extremely thin covers. There will be a total of about 3,000 volumes. He plans to hire 120 people The typesetter, twenty-five editors, took six years to complete, and cost about £163,000.The banishment of St. Helena destroyed this plan.Strange to say, Napoleon, who tried to discredit Volde as much as Frederick the Great admired him, made Fielding and La Sage among his traveling companions.But his love for books can be seen from the instructions he gave to his librarian: "I want exquisite editions and beautiful bindings, and my wealth is sufficient to meet this request." The only thing that makes people believe in the correctness of his literary taste is his fondness for Osean, the Irish third-century legendary poet. Julian Caesar also collected a travel collection of forty-four pocket volumes, which were kept in a small leather-bound oak case, sixteen inches long, eleven inches wide, and three inches high.The books, bound in white calfskin, include historical, philosophical, theological works, and poetry in Latin and Greek.The collector of this batch of books is Sir Julian Caesar of England, and now this batch of exquisite and unique collections is in the British Museum in London. Each book was printed between 1591 and 1616. In the 18th century, the British Poet Laureate Sark collected 14,000 volumes. As he himself said, this was the most valuable collection that any person who lived by writing could collect until his time. collection of books. Time constraints I can't talk about Erasmus, T. S. Glodios, Goethe, and Bautley; and Hans Sloem, whose private collection of fifty thousand volumes is in the British Museum Bishop Col Romeo, who established the Ambrosian Library in Milan with a collection of 40,000 volumes, and many other famous people who can be called book lovers. Nor should we forget Sir Richard Waddington, famously treacherous, who donated £400 to establish the library of Christ's Hospital in London.And women, both good and bad; eminent ones may be named Lady Grey, Catherine of Midish, and Diano ter Poidil. Now it is time to talk about that great opium addict Quincy), he is simply a literary stealing ghost, famous for borrowing books and never returning them, so his library is composed of all forced donations from friends-yes, because who dares to refuse What about lending a book to Thomas Tre Quincy?But the great Thomas was very careless in his use of books; John Borden, in his book The Book Hunter, tells us, "He once The original manuscript was written on the edge of a long and narrow octavo volume, Somniun Scipionis, and because he never erased the text on the book, the compositor was confused. The handwritten English was mixed and arranged into a confused account." No joke at all, I think the elegant Elijah (translator's note, this refers to the famous British essayist Charles Lamb) should be included in his category, because he once said: "The most satisfying reading should be your own. Books, books that have been in our hands so long that we have seen their spots and folds, and can trace their stains to read with butter muffins at tea, or to match a bag of Smoke to read, and this I think should be the maximum." In Charles Lambert, however, a certain amount of laziness can be forgiven, for, according to Leigh Hunt, he once picked up an old long passage of Homer to kiss, and when asked how he could When distinguishing one book from another, since none were marked, he replied, "How can a shepherd distinguish his flock?" The licentious Henry VIII and the headstrong General Juno have not necessarily shown a greater taste for books than the greedy and extravagant Roman general Luculus, who reminds us of another general Pontus. Pe, when he was sick and ordered by his doctor to eat a thrush for his lunch, and when he learned from his servants that he could get it nowhere in summer except from the fat pens of Lucullus, he refused a meal. Taking the favor of others for lunch, he once said: "Then if Lucullus is not a good eater, Peng Pei will not be able to live." Of him, the faithful biographer Polutarch says: "At any rate, he is to be commended and recorded for furnishing a library, because he collected a great selection of manuscripts, and used them more beautifully than he purchased them, for the library was open all year round. Yes, its reading rooms and passages are freely accessible to all Greeks, who are happiest when they leave their work and come here as quickly as they come to the palace of the goddess of literature." There is no record of the philosopher Socrates collecting books—his wife may have objected to it—but we know from his mouth that he loved books.He did not like the country, and the only thing that could attract him there was a book.He once confessed this to Pheetrus: "Very true, my good friend, I hope you will forgive me when you know the reason, for I am a lover of knowledge, and the men who live in the city are my masters, not the trees in the country. But I do believe you can find a way to lure me out of the city into the country, just as you lure a hungry cow with a twig or a bunch of fruit. For you just take a book and put it in my In front of you, you can take me all over Yardika, or even the whole world. Once I arrive, I hope to lie down and choose the most suitable posture for reading."
The mania for collecting books is not a recent disease, but has probably existed as long as books have been available, and has infected many of the wisest and most powerful men in history.The Greek poet Euripides was once mocked by Aristophanes for his bibliophilia in The Children.Of the Roman emperors, Gordian, who arose in the third century (perhaps not yet, for he was killed after thirty-six days on the throne), Gibbon said, "Twenty-two Concubine Ji and the 60,000-volume collection of books show the many aspects of his hobbies.) This combination of obsession with literary taste seems to be pinned on another emperor in a later period—Henry VIII— The reason why he spent ten thousand and eight hundred pounds on jewels during the three years, and only £100 on books and bindings during the same period, is explained to be Much of his library collection was obtained from plundering the monastery, and Henry had printed several volumes of his anti-Luther works on parchment. Cicero of Rome, who had in his Villa Tuscorian an excellent library, especially rich in Greek writings, once described his beloved collection thus: "Books that increase the wisdom of youth, books that please old age, decorate Prosperity, the book that shelters and comforts us in our adversity, the book that brings enjoyment home, the book that keeps us company when we go out, the book that spends our evenings with us, travels with us, and goes to the country with us.” The poet Petrarch, who collected books not only to satisfy his own hobbies, but also wanted to become the founder of a permanent library in Venice, donated his books to St. Mark's Church, but most of them were lost due to preservation negligence Only a small number survived. In anticipation of his early death, the author of the book, Bao Jiaqiu, once entrusted his book collection to his dear friend Beatrak, asking him to guarantee the integrity of the collection according to his own conditions. The poet promised that if he died later than Bao Jiaqiu, He must have looked after the collection; but Boccacio outlived Beatrarch, and he bequeathed his library to the Augustinian monastery in Florence, part of which is still available to visitors at Laurentians. See you in the library in the ground.According to Bao Jiaqiu's own account of his collection of books, we must believe that his collection of books must be very unsuitable for the library of the monastery, and the well-meaning monks may have sent most of them to the stake of the heretics, just like "Ji He What happened to the story collections of rangers in "The Legend of Germany" is ordinary.Perhaps these cynical novelists intended his gift as a dark irony. The walls of the room which formerly housed the essayist Montaigne's library are still exhibited to the pilgrims, with inscriptions branded on the beams and rafters by the eccentric and lovely vignette with a branding iron. The author of "The Saxon Heroes After the Raid" adorned his magnificent library with a complete suit of armor, and filled it with works of monsters and witchcraft.The satirical author of "Gulliver's Travels", Swift, has the habit of annotating his books, and likes to write on the title page his general opinion on the author's evaluation. No matter what books he has, he seems to have no Shakespeare, too, cannot be found anywhere in Swift's nineteen volumes. Soldiers always seem to have a passion for books.Not to mention Julius Caesar's taste in literary rhetoric, the "first person in ancient and modern times" Frederick the Great had libraries in Sansuke, Potsdam, and Berlin, and he arranged the books according to categories, regardless of the size of the format.For books that are too thick, he disassembles them and divides them into several volumes for easy reading. His favorite works of French writers are sometimes reprinted into fine print according to his taste. General Conti of France had inherited from his father a valuable library, which he cherished and enlarged.General Marlborough of England had twenty-five love-printed books on parchment, all of which were rare before 1496. General Juno, the general under Napoleon, who was brave and good at fighting, had a collection of parchment books, which sold for fourteen hundred pounds in London.And his great master, busy as he was with the conquest of Europe, not only did not forget to take comfort in his own permanent collection, and in the books which he always carried with him on expeditions. He even planned, and has already begun to print, a series of books for the march, all in twelve-format small volumes, with no margins and extremely thin covers. There will be a total of about 3,000 volumes. He plans to hire 120 people The typesetter, twenty-five editors, took six years to complete, and cost about £163,000.The banishment of St. Helena destroyed this plan.Strange to say, Napoleon, who tried to discredit Volde as much as Frederick the Great admired him, made Fielding and La Sage among his traveling companions.But his love for books can be seen from the instructions he gave to his librarian: "I want exquisite editions and beautiful bindings, and my wealth is sufficient to meet this request." The only thing that makes people believe in the correctness of his literary taste is his fondness for Osean, the Irish third-century legendary poet. Julian Caesar also collected a travel collection of forty-four pocket volumes, which were kept in a small leather-bound oak case, sixteen inches long, eleven inches wide, and three inches high.The books, bound in white calfskin, include historical, philosophical, theological works, and poetry in Latin and Greek.The collector of this batch of books is Sir Julian Caesar of England, and now this batch of exquisite and unique collections is in the British Museum in London. Each book was printed between 1591 and 1616. In the 18th century, the British Poet Laureate Sark collected 14,000 volumes. As he himself said, this was the most valuable collection that any person who lived by writing could collect until his time. collection of books. Time constraints I can't talk about Erasmus, T. S. Glodios, Goethe, and Bautley; and Hans Sloem, whose private collection of fifty thousand volumes is in the British Museum Bishop Col Romeo, who established the Ambrosian Library in Milan with a collection of 40,000 volumes, and many other famous people who can be called book lovers. Nor should we forget Sir Richard Waddington, famously treacherous, who donated £400 to establish the library of Christ's Hospital in London.And women, both good and bad; eminent ones may be named Lady Grey, Catherine of Midish, and Diano ter Poidil. Now it is time to talk about that great opium addict Quincy), he is simply a literary stealing ghost, famous for borrowing books and never returning them, so his library is composed of all forced donations from friends-yes, because who dares to refuse What about lending a book to Thomas Tre Quincy?But the great Thomas was very careless in his use of books; John Borden, in his book The Book Hunter, tells us, "He once The original manuscript was written on the edge of a long and narrow octavo volume, Somniun Scipionis, and because he never erased the text on the book, the compositor was confused. The handwritten English was mixed and arranged into a confused account." No joke at all, I think the elegant Elijah (translator's note, this refers to the famous British essayist Charles Lamb) should be included in his category, because he once said: "The most satisfying reading should be your own. Books, books that have been in our hands so long that we have seen their spots and folds, and can trace their stains to read with butter muffins at tea, or to match a bag of Smoke to read, and this I think should be the maximum." In Charles Lambert, however, a certain amount of laziness can be forgiven, for, according to Leigh Hunt, he once picked up an old long passage of Homer to kiss, and when asked how he could When distinguishing one book from another, since none were marked, he replied, "How can a shepherd distinguish his flock?" The licentious Henry VIII and the headstrong General Juno have not necessarily shown a greater taste for books than the greedy and extravagant Roman general Luculus, who reminds us of another general Pontus. Pe, when he was sick and ordered by his doctor to eat a thrush for his lunch, and when he learned from his servants that he could get it nowhere in summer except from the fat pens of Lucullus, he refused a meal. Taking the favor of others for lunch, he once said: "Then if Lucullus is not a good eater, Peng Pei will not be able to live." Of him, the faithful biographer Polutarch says: "At any rate, he is to be commended and recorded for furnishing a library, because he collected a great selection of manuscripts, and used them more beautifully than he purchased them, for the library was open all year round. Yes, its reading rooms and passages are freely accessible to all Greeks, who are happiest when they leave their work and come here as quickly as they come to the palace of the goddess of literature." There is no record of the philosopher Socrates collecting books—his wife may have objected to it—but we know from his mouth that he loved books.He did not like the country, and the only thing that could attract him there was a book.He once confessed this to Pheetrus: "Very true, my good friend, I hope you will forgive me when you know the reason, for I am a lover of knowledge, and the men who live in the city are my masters, not the trees in the country. But I do believe you can find a way to lure me out of the city into the country, just as you lure a hungry cow with a twig or a bunch of fruit. For you just take a book and put it in my In front of you, you can take me all over Yardika, or even the whole world. Once I arrive, I hope to lie down and choose the most suitable posture for reading."