124 - Mantova Benavides, Marco. Didaskalikos … De verborum et rerum significatione. Padua, Pasquali, 1568., Extremely rare first edition

Mantova Benavides, Marco. Didaskalikos … De verborum et rerum significatione. Padua, Pasquali, 1568., Extremely rare first edition Mantova Benavides, Marco. Didaskalikos … De verborum et rerum significatione. Padua, Pasquali, 1568. Octavo (150 x 98 mm); [1], 147, [1] leaves. Title page with a woodcut vignette depicting Ismenias (minor restorations on the last leaf, sporadic stains). 19th-century binding in brown half-leather with corner caps and marbled endpapers; smooth spine with title stamped in black type. The author was a renowned jurist and professor of law at the University of Padua, where he taught for over sixty years. The treatise addresses the meaning of words and things in a legal context. The image of Ismenias, the famous Theban aulist of ancient Greece, evokes the classical musical tradition and lends the volume an interesting iconographic character. Very rare first edition