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Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo, sacerdote. Et d'altri Scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie. Tradotte, dichiarate, & con diverse utili, & necessarie annotationi, illustrate, da M. Francesco Sansovin

4to. ff. [8], 104 (i.e. 112). F. 112 misnumbered 104. Signatures: †⁸ A-O⁸. Vellum. Printer' s device on title page. Headpieces and engraved initials. The second Italian translation of Annius’s Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium, Rome, 1498 (Bib# 4102734/Fr# 185 in this collection), a collection of spurious fragments of the works of Greek and Roman writers, with Sansovino’s credulous commentary. For the first translation, see Bib# 4102740/Fr# 193 in this collection). See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, B792. On Annius, see several contributions in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, esp. A. Grafton, “Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His Information;” S. O’Connell, “Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical Figure;” and W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic.” Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.

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