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Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali libri III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poematon editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogae duae Coryle, et quinquennius superioribus quatuor additae. Calpurnij Siculi Eclogae VII. Aurelij Nemesiani Eclogae IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio uiro doctissimo. Index rerum, quae in his Pontani lusibus contineantur.
by PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano, CALPURNIUS SICULUS, NEMESIANUS, and Pietro SUMMONTE
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RARE FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF PONTANO'S LOVE POETRY
FIRST ALDINE EDITON. 8vo, ff. 170 [i.e.164], [2] (Renouard: "lacune de huit [feuillets] après le fol. 88"; leaves 144 and 165 are blank). Italic letter, a little Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters, Aldus' device on t-p and verso of final leaf. Imprint and register on recto of second-to-last sheet. A few ms. annotations, mainly on title. Some wear at headcap. An attractive crisp and clean copy bound in 18th-century mottled brown leather, gilt-tooled spine. Original endpapers, a.e.r.
Dedicated to Antonio Mocenigo. Francesco D'Asola's preface includes a wonderful praise of Pontano's poetry. The man of letters was very much appreciated by the dedicatee, who kept Pontano's portrait in his private library. D'Asola also tells that the dedicatee's father, Aloisio, who served the Republic as ambassador, brought an old manuscript of Pliny's letters from France to Venice, where the editor and his kin Aldus amended and curated the text for publication. The present book includes also some works by earlier authors which were edited by Pontanus.
Renouard, p. 85 - 1518 (no. 10): "sans dérangement dans les signatures. Les deux derniers feuillets non chiffrés contiennent la souscription et l'ancre"; EDIT16 CNCE 37595.
FIRST ALDINE EDITON. 8vo, ff. 170 [i.e.164], [2] (Renouard: "lacune de huit [feuillets] après le fol. 88"; leaves 144 and 165 are blank). Italic letter, a little Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters, Aldus' device on t-p and verso of final leaf. Imprint and register on recto of second-to-last sheet. A few ms. annotations, mainly on title. Some wear at headcap. An attractive crisp and clean copy bound in 18th-century mottled brown leather, gilt-tooled spine. Original endpapers, a.e.r.
Dedicated to Antonio Mocenigo. Francesco D'Asola's preface includes a wonderful praise of Pontano's poetry. The man of letters was very much appreciated by the dedicatee, who kept Pontano's portrait in his private library. D'Asola also tells that the dedicatee's father, Aloisio, who served the Republic as ambassador, brought an old manuscript of Pliny's letters from France to Venice, where the editor and his kin Aldus amended and curated the text for publication. The present book includes also some works by earlier authors which were edited by Pontanus.
Renouard, p. 85 - 1518 (no. 10): "sans dérangement dans les signatures. Les deux derniers feuillets non chiffrés contiennent la souscription et l'ancre"; EDIT16 CNCE 37595.
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- Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali libri III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poematon editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogae duae Coryle, et quinquennius superioribus quatuor additae. Calpurnij Siculi Eclogae VII. Aurelij Nemesiani Eclogae IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio uiro doctissimo. Index rerum, quae in his Pontani lusibus contineantur.
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- PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano, CALPURNIUS SICULUS, NEMESIANUS, and Pietro SUMMONTE
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- In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri
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- Venice
- Date Published
- 1518
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- 0.00 lbs
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