Classical literature

Juvenal together with a recently recognised satire by Persius, Florence, published by Giunti, 1519.

1 volume in 8°, cc.80.

Author:   Giovenale, Persio

Loose parchment binding, printer's mark and editorial information at the end. Slight damage to the book binding, handwritten marginal notes, light browning.

All the extant works of C. Julius Caesar, an Italian version from a manuscript codex adapted to the modern style; with numerous bronze plates, either showing history or geography; with notes and various notes from the Dutch and English editions, added by Hermolaus Albritius.

Founder of the Albritian Society, Most Serene Venetian Republic DDD [Venice], in the printing house of Giambattista Albrizzi, 1737.

Author:   Caio Giulio Cesare

Cm. 28, pp. (4), 76 [recte 80], 686, (2) xxxx. Beautiful initials, figured headpieces and tailpieces, splendid frontispiece, 57 refined copper engravings nt (on 1/3 or 1/2 page) and 6 plates ft (of which 3 are folded several times). Latin and Italian text in two columns (Italian translation by Francesco Baldelli). Nineteenth-century binding in full parchment; with manuscript title on the spine, red edges.

Sporadic and natural stains/blooms, water stains especially on the last cards.

Overall well-preserved specimen

Fifth

The Delightful Sermons, otherwise Satires and the Moral Epistles of Horatio, together with the Poetics. Adapted by Lodovico Dolce from the Latin poem into blank verse in the vernacular. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1559. in-8, pp. 318, (1 with typographical device on the recto)

Author:   Orazio Flacco

17th-century binding in full brown leather with the arms of the Marquis Cavmartin.

Small typographical enterprise at the title, another large one at the end, numerous historiated initials and syllogisms. Dedication of the translator to the nobleman Bernardino Ferrario from Pavia; it is followed by the Life of Horace written by Dolce and, at the end, some short writings by the latter can be read: ''Origine della satira, Discorso sopra le satire, sopra le Epistole e sopra la Poetica''. First translation into Italian of the Sermons and Epistles of Horace, while the Poetica had already been published by Dolce in 1535 and 1536 (cfr. Bongi II, 69).

Truly excellent conditions both of the binding and internally.

The works of the lyric poet Orazio commented by Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine in the Tuscan vernacular, with order that the vernacular and the Latin commentary: and the Latin and the vernacular commentary, both languages explaining each other.

In Veneto, near Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa, and brothers, 1573.

Author:   Orazio Flacco

In 4°, binding in full modern parchment with gold titles and decorations and coats of arms of the Sanminiatelli family on the plate.

Cc. (4)-389. Errors in the numbering of the leaves; woodcut initials and decorations. On leaf 3, dedication by Giovanni Fabrini to Giovanni Francesco Ridolfi and to Iacopo Borgianni. Some light staining and light browning, red edges. Some glosses in the text.

More than a good copy.

Comedies of Terentius again in Latin in the vernacular translated with the grace and privilege of the illustrious Venetian Senate

The comedies of Terentius end, stamped in Venice by maestro Bernardino Vidale, at the instance of M. Jacob da Borgofrancho, of the month of July MDXXXII 1533.

Author:   TERENZIO P.

Excellent and solid full parchment, 17th century. Title on the spine. CC. 171, + 1 c. with a beautiful printer's device. Beautiful frontispiece illustrated in woodcut. Text in elegant italics. This is the first vernacular edition of the comedies, translated by GB da Borgofrancho, reprinted many times. Very rare, missing from ADAMS. See the very long note in ARGELATI "VOLGARIZZATORI" IV p. 37, where the vernacular translator is discussed and doubted. Some very slight stains on the margin of a few leaves, small stain on the frontispiece, but a very beautiful copy. FEDERICI " SCRITTORI LATINI " p. 13; HAYM 339/11; BM. STC. 665; PAITONI IV 105; BRUNET V723; GRAESSE VII 67. On the front flyleaf, noble ex libris. ICCU records only 12 copies present in Italian libraries.

Dione

Historian of the Wars & Facts of the Romans: Translated from Greek into the Vulgar Tongue by M. Nicolo Leoniceno.

Author: Dione Cassio

Publisher: With its illustrations in each book, a work that has come to light again, and has not been printed in any other language. by Nicolò d'Aristotile of Ferrara called Zoppino, 1533 of the month of March (in the colophon), in Venice

Old full parchment binding, manuscript title on the spine, Interior in excellent condition, only a small repair to the white margin of the last 3 leaves, and a small stain on the first. First edition of the vernacular translation of the work of the Roman historian and politician of Greek language Dio Cassius Cocceianus (155-235 AD), a fundamental source for the history of the Roman Empire. Adams, D-511; Essling II, p. 600. 8vo (21 cm), 6 cc.nn., CCLXXXII pp. with a small portrait of the Author and 22 woodcut illustrations in the text. Frontispiece within a richly illustrated frame.

Very nice copy.

Cato Major

The same book of Letters XIV, sent to you by Cato the Elder, is often read to me, for old age makes me more bitter. And the commentaries of F. Sylvius Ambiani (François Dubois) on the same, now enlarged and revised.

Author: Ciceronis ad T. Atticum

Publisher: [Paris] Published in the Officina Ascensiana, January 1530

1 Volume in 4°, binding in full contemporary parchment with handwritten title on the back. Cc.nn.6, XCIIII. BOUND WITH: M.T. Cicéronis ad M.T. Orator Illustratus Iacobi Lodoïci Rhemi commentariis Parisiis MDXXXVI Apud Michaelem Vascosanum, in Vico D. Jacobi, sub signo Fontis: Cum gratiæ privilegio in triennum. Au colophon Typis imprimebat Michael Vascosanus Lutetia anno MDXXXVI tertio Idus Iulii. Pp. (cc.nn.6) CXXVII, (1c. bianca) BOUND WITH: RUTILIO LUPO. P. Rutilii Lupi De figuris sententiarum, liber prior ex Graeco Gorgia vorsus. (Paris) Sub Prelo Ascesiano, 1528. Pp.135 (2) BOUND WITH: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. A double commentary entirely reposited and revised in Boethius (or Boethummais) on philosophical consolation and scholastic discipline. That which is attributed to Thomas Aquinas and which was more recently issued by the Ascension: one with a book on manners in table information ... published by Sulpitius Verulanus. Lugd.: sold by the printers Petro Mareschal & Barnaba Chaussard ... and by the Bibliopolis: next to the convent of the preachers, called Our Lady of Comfort. (This work was printed in Lugd., one with Iohanne Sulpitius on manners in table service: by the distinguished printers Petrum Mareschal & Barnaba Chaussard, on the 8th of September, 1511) Pp. ([118]; [24] c.) All the works are complete and in excellent condition, except for some browning in the last work.

Beautiful collection of very rare works.

Quintus Horace Flaccus' Book on the Art of Poetry, explained by the interpretation of James Grifola Lucinianus.

It is declared by the same author that the rhetorical books by Herennius and by Marcus Tullius Cicero have nothing whatsoever to do with them.

Author:  Giacomo Grisoli

Publisher: Florence, LORENZO TORRENTINO, 1550

pp. 149 + nn (including the last blank sheet), woodcut frontispiece with architectural frame and small view of Florence, woodcut initials.

1 volume in 4°, binding in contemporary full parchment with slightly faded handwritten title on the spine.

Beautiful edition in very good condition and large margins.