190 - PETRONE - NODOT. Petrone in Latin and French. Complete translation, based on the manuscript found in Belgrade in 1688. With several notes and additions not included in the first edition. New edition. Expanded to include Petrone’s Counter-Critique.

PETRONE - NODOT. Petrone in Latin and French. Complete translation, based on the manuscript found in Belgrade in 1688. With several notes and additions not included in the first edition. New edition. Expanded to include Petrone’s Counter-Critique. Amsterdam, Published by the Company, 1756, 2 volumes in-12, 2ff.-XLIX-1f.-383pp. - 2ff.-293pp. - 2ff.-125pp. for the “Counter-Critique”—10 plates. Tawny veal leather, ornate ribbed spine, red title labels, red edges. (Contemporary bindings). - Paper very slightly yellowed. Minimal defects. Latin text and translation in parallel columns. Two of the ten intaglio engravings are folded. One of the three poems paying homage to the translator (who is named in the Preface) is signed Santeuil. The “new fragments,” published separately in 1693, are printed here in “round letters” and incorporated into the Latin text. The “Belgrade manuscript,” which is said to have revealed these fragments, is considered apocryphal, and many critics have attributed it to Nodot himself. In his counter-critique, the translator argues that his lack of proficiency in Latin prevented him from crafting a credible pastiche, and the so-called Petronian fragments may actually belong to Linage de Vaucienne, with the assistance of Nicolas Chorier. (See Petrequin, *Nouvelles recherches historiques et critiques sur Petrone*, 1869). - (Brunet IV, 576 - Barbier III, 864 - *Supercheries* III, 90 - Gay-Lemonnyer III, 721).