Italiano

Dell'Eneide di Virgilio del commendatore Annibal Caro

[12], 476, [4] pages : 12 cm (24mo) · Italian translator of Virgil's Aeneid by the Italian poet and playwright Annibale Caro · Printer and correct printing date from colophon, which reads: In Roma. Ad instanza di Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli. Et Angelo Manni. Appresso Guglielmo Facciotto, M. DC. XXII [1622] · Signatures: [maltese cross]⁶ A-V¹² · Leaves [maltese cross]1 and V12 are blank · Engravings: engraved title-page, featuring portrait medallions in upper portion of Virgil and Annibal Caro; below title cartouche, two cherubs hold the Aldine anchor-and-dolphin device (possibly the smallest Aldine device in print) and motto "Festina lente" used by Ruffinelli, who had purchased the printing privileges and projects of Domenico Basa, Paolo Manuzio's former partner at the Stamperia del Popolo Romano in Rome when Basa declared bankruptcy in 1595; Ruffinelli continued using Basa's types and exploiting the popularity of the Aldine dolphin and anchor device; see Bortolani, pages 137-138; each of the twelve books of the Aeneid illustrated with a full-page engraved scene from the poem · Text printed in small italic type · Includes dedicatory preface by Ruffinelli and Manni, addressed to Baldassa

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