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Dione historico delle guerre & fatti de romani. Tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare, per m. Nicolò Leoniceno. Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne più in lingua alcuna stampata.

Dione historico delle guerre & fatti de romani. Tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare, per m. Nicolò Leoniceno. Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne più in lingua alcuna stampata.

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Dione historico delle guerre & fatti de romani. Tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare, per m. Nicolò Leoniceno. Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne più in lingua alcuna stampata.

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A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED RENAISSANCE BOOK

FIRST VERNACULAR EDITION. 4to, ff. [6], CCLXXXII, with a woodcut portrait of the author and 22 charming vignettes. Roman letter. Title within elaborate ornamental border with figures. Clean, bright and crisp copy, printed on heavy paper. Modern period-style binding in limp vellum with ties, ms. name to head of spine.

First edition in any vernacular language. The Greek original was not printed until 1548. Moss quotes Haym on this edition of 1533: "Edizione rara". The interesting woodcuts are by several artists, whose monograms appear on each. Humanist Leoniceno vulgarised directly from the Greek both Procopius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Ambr. 272 ​​inf.) and this Roman History of Cassius Dio, a work already started in 1473 and completed before 1488. It was then published in this edition in Venice only in 1533. Of Dio's great work, which covers the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus, we possess only Books 36-60, which cover the years 68 BCE-47 CE. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps by John Xiphilinus. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors.

Adams D511; Graesse, II, 34; Moss I, 407; Sander 2436; Edit16 CNCE 17205. Not in Brunet.

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Dione historico delle guerre & fatti de romani. Tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare, per m. Nicolò Leoniceno. Con le sue figure a ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne più in lingua alcuna stampata.
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