Dipnosophistarum Sive Coenaea Sapientum

This sixteenth-century Latin volume is a scholarly edition of the *Deipnosophistae* by Athenaeus of Naucratis, the ancient Greek author whose work—whose title translates roughly as "The Dinner-Table Philosophers" or "Sophists at Dinner"—presents an extensive compendium of ancient Greek and Roman culinary culture, dining customs, food, wine, and related literary references. Rather than a practical recipe collection, the text takes the form of a learned narrative dialogue set at a banquet, drawing on hundreds of earlier Greek authors to discuss ingredients, dishes, feasting practices, and the pleasures of the table. Published in France by Honorati in 1556, this hardcover edition represents an important moment in Renaissance humanist scholarship, making the ancient text accessible to Latin-reading scholars of the period. It is of primary interest to historians of classical antiquity, food history researchers, and those studying the culinary and symposiastic traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world.