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1095 - BEROALDO, Filippo *Libellus quo Septem Sapientum sententiae discutiuntur*. [Bologna] (published by Benedictus Hectoris, bookseller of Bologna [i.e., Benedetto i Faelli], 1502. October 10) 4to: [24] ff. (some very light foxing, occasional small water stains, contemporary pen annotations and underlinings). Modern Bradel half-parchment binding, gray paper boards (scratch on spine). Fine large-paper copy of the second Bologna edition (1st, same publisher, 1498) of this early post-incunabulum schoolbook, also known as the “Heptalogos,” in which moral instruction is conveyed through stories based on the proverbs and sayings of the Seven Sages of Greece (Cleobulus, Solon, Chilon, Bias, Thales, Pittacus, Myrsilus, and Periander). Beroaldo (1453–1505), a celebrated Italian literary author, opened a school in Bologna when he was only 19 years old. He taught in Parma, Milan, and at the University of Paris before being recalled to Bologna and offered the chair of literature. Finely printed, with the printer’s mark in the colophon. Ref. USTC 814178. - EDIT16 5568. - Not listed in Machiels, Soltész, or Adams (other editions).
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BEROALDO, Filippo *Libellus quo Septem Sapientum sententiae discutiuntur*. [Bologna] (published by Benedictus Hectoris, bookseller of Bologna [i.e., Benedetto i Faelli], 1502. October 10) 4to: [24] ff. (some very light foxing, occasional small water stains, contemporary pen annotations and underlinings). Modern Bradel half-parchment binding, gray paper boards (scratch on spine). Fine large-paper copy of the second Bologna edition (1st, same publisher, 1498) of this early post-incunabulum schoolbook, also known as the “Heptalogos,” in which moral instruction is conveyed through stories based on the proverbs and sayings of the Seven Sages of Greece (Cleobulus, Solon, Chilon, Bias, Thales, Pittacus, Myrsilus, and Periander). Beroaldo (1453–1505), a celebrated Italian literary author, opened a school in Bologna when he was only 19 years old. He taught in Parma, Milan, and at the University of Paris before being recalled to Bologna and offered the chair of literature. Finely printed, with the printer’s mark in the colophon. Ref. USTC 814178. - EDIT16 5568. - Not listed in Machiels, Soltész, or Adams (other editions).
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