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1090 - OVIDIUS NASO, Publius Le metamorfosi di Ovidio. Ridotte da Gio Andrea Dell'Anguillara in ottava rima. Con le annotationi di M. Gioseppe Horologgi, & gli argomenti, & postille di M. Francesco Turchi. In questa nuova impressione di vaghe figure adornate. Venice B. Giunta 1584 4to: [16]-547-[1 bl.] pp., ruled in red (engr. title cut close to the frame and mounted on a leaf of laid paper, dampstains, occ. soiling, ink migration from engravings, tear without loss restored on f. X2, angular lack of paper on †3). Contemp. calf, gilt fillets and angular and central floral tools on boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands and black label, a.e.g. (us., restored in the past with some marg. missing). First of two editions printed by the Giunta in 1584, with the dedication beginning with "Le Metamorfosi d'Ovidio [...]". Nicely illustrated with copper engravings by Giacomo Franco: title (old reproduction ?), 15 full-page engr. (one at the beginning of each book) combining multiple scenes from each book with the figures labelled, within an elaborate scrollwork border with grotesques, 15 cartouches containing the "Argomento" with scrollwork borders (4 different). The translator dell'Anguillara (1517-1570) modernised the "Metamorphoses", converting the verse form to the "ottava rima" and introducing into the text allusions "to various contemporary works of Italian literature fashionable in his time" (Goldschmidt). With annotations by Giuseppe Orologgi, and "argomenti" and notes by Francesco Turchi. Ref. EDIT16 28513. - Mortimer, Italian, 343. - STC Italy 482. - Gamba 1556. - Goldschmidt 167. - Not in Pettas, Adams. Prov. Prince Augustus Frederick, 1st Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 6th son of King George III of England and brother of George IV. After the Duke's death, his library in Kensington Palace was sold by Evans (large armorial bookpl. with motto "Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos" and ms. shelf-mark, ms. mention "Sale catalogue No. 671, pt. V"; ref. Bibliotheca Sussexiana V:34 ("Very scarce").
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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius Le metamorfosi di Ovidio. Ridotte da Gio Andrea Dell'Anguillara in ottava rima. Con le annotationi di M. Gioseppe Horologgi, & gli argomenti, & postille di M. Francesco Turchi. In questa nuova impressione di vaghe figure adornate. Venice B. Giunta 1584 4to: [16]-547-[1 bl.] pp., ruled in red (engr. title cut close to the frame and mounted on a leaf of laid paper, dampstains, occ. soiling, ink migration from engravings, tear without loss restored on f. X2, angular lack of paper on †3). Contemp. calf, gilt fillets and angular and central floral tools on boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands and black label, a.e.g. (us., restored in the past with some marg. missing). First of two editions printed by the Giunta in 1584, with the dedication beginning with "Le Metamorfosi d'Ovidio [...]". Nicely illustrated with copper engravings by Giacomo Franco: title (old reproduction ?), 15 full-page engr. (one at the beginning of each book) combining multiple scenes from each book with the figures labelled, within an elaborate scrollwork border with grotesques, 15 cartouches containing the "Argomento" with scrollwork borders (4 different). The translator dell'Anguillara (1517-1570) modernised the "Metamorphoses", converting the verse form to the "ottava rima" and introducing into the text allusions "to various contemporary works of Italian literature fashionable in his time" (Goldschmidt). With annotations by Giuseppe Orologgi, and "argomenti" and notes by Francesco Turchi. Ref. EDIT16 28513. - Mortimer, Italian, 343. - STC Italy 482. - Gamba 1556. - Goldschmidt 167. - Not in Pettas, Adams. Prov. Prince Augustus Frederick, 1st Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 6th son of King George III of England and brother of George IV. After the Duke's death, his library in Kensington Palace was sold by Evans (large armorial bookpl. with motto "Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos" and ms. shelf-mark, ms. mention "Sale catalogue No. 671, pt. V"; ref. Bibliotheca Sussexiana V:34 ("Very scarce").
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