55 - Pausanias. Description of Greece, which includes its origins...along with the mountains, lakes, rivers, springs, mines, statues, colossi, and all the marvelous things that have made it famous. Mantua, Osanna, 1593. The first Italian translation of the famous description of Greece

Pausanias. Description of Greece, which includes its origins...along with the mountains, lakes, rivers, springs, mines, statues, colossi, and all the marvelous things that have made it famous. Mantua, Osanna, 1593. The first Italian translation of the famous description of Greece Pausanias. Description of Greece, which includes its origins...along with the mountains, lakes, rivers, springs, mines, statues, colossi, and all the marvelous things that have made it famous. Mantua, Osanna, 1593. Quarto (225 x 170 mm); [24], 464 pages (with misnumbering). Title page with the title within an elaborate woodcut cartouche, typographic friezes (scattered browning, a few stains). Slightly later full-parchment binding, title and friezes handwritten on the spine. First edition of one of the principal ancient sources for understanding the geography, monuments, works of art, and traditions of classical Greece. The author describes cities, temples, statues, colossi, mountains, lakes, rivers, springs, and mines with great attention to detail, preserving valuable accounts of numerous works that are now lost. The work played a fundamental role in the rediscovery of Greek antiquity and served as an indispensable source for travelers, antiquarians, and scholars of classical art. First Italian translation of Pausanias’s celebrated *Description of Greece*