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[not before 27 August 1496, printed for the author]
BENEDETTI, Alessandro (ca. 1450-1512). Diaria de bello Carolino. Super-chancery 4° (208 x 155mm). Collation: a-h8 i4 (a1r title, a1v-2r two Latin poems by Quintius Haemilianus, a2v-3v author's dedication to Agostino Barbarigo, doge 1486-1501, a4r summary of bk. I, a4v-e4v bk. I De Tarrensi pugna, e4v-5r summary of bk. II, e5v-i3r bk. II De obsidione urbis Novariae, i3v-4r Benedetti's letter to Venetian senators Sebastiano Badoer and Girolamo Bernardo, i4r privilege granted by the Senate, i4v blank). 68 leaves. Roman type 2:114. 25 lines. All stop-press corrections as listed by Bühler except first and last, but the last amended in pen-and-ink. (Manuscript notes in outer margins shaved, nonetheless a tall and wide copy.)
BINDING: Vellum boards, red and green-stained edges. PROVENANCE: ALL MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS TO THE TEXT MADE AT THE ALDINE SHOP as identified and listed by Bühler (except the second on a6r and the one on d1r, which have been left uncorrected), to which can be added several corrections on f8r and A SUBSTANTIAL INSERTION on i1r (see illustration); an early-16th-century reader has added brief comments in the margins of more than two dozen pages, in a fine and bold hand; foliation LXXXVI-CLIII, showing the copy once formed part of a tract volume
FIRST EDITION. This edition forms something of an oddity in the list of Aldus's early productions. It is evident that he acted merely as printer of this patriotic text, his name is entirely absent, and it was to the author that a privilege had been made out, on 26th June 1496; incidentally, the three paper stocks represented in this copy seem not to recur in other Aldus editions. "Benedetti was a fashionable Venetian doctor who had served with the army during the campaign against the French in 1495, and now sought literary fame by producing a personal account which he peppered liberally with compliments to influential noblemen. He bore the costs of the edition, and Aldus did not add his own name. But correspondence reveals that Benedetti was a close friend of Giorgio Valla, the public lecturer through whose good offices Aldus made his own entrance into Venetian high society. It was worth obliging such a man. In odd contrast to the coherently planned Greek editions, these Latin texts should serve to remind us that Aldus had his supporters, as well as his ideals to satisfy." (Lowry p. 117). IN CRISP CONDITION. H *805; GW 863; BMC V, 555; Goff A-389; IGI 1460; Klebs 173.1; Murphy 9; Sansoviniana 10; Laurenziana 10; Scapecchi 13; In Praise p. 45; R 260:9
BENEDETTI, Alessandro (ca. 1450-1512). Diaria de bello Carolino. Super-chancery 4° (208 x 155mm). Collation: a-h8 i4 (a1r title, a1v-2r two Latin poems by Quintius Haemilianus, a2v-3v author's dedication to Agostino Barbarigo, doge 1486-1501, a4r summary of bk. I, a4v-e4v bk. I De Tarrensi pugna, e4v-5r summary of bk. II, e5v-i3r bk. II De obsidione urbis Novariae, i3v-4r Benedetti's letter to Venetian senators Sebastiano Badoer and Girolamo Bernardo, i4r privilege granted by the Senate, i4v blank). 68 leaves. Roman type 2:114. 25 lines. All stop-press corrections as listed by Bühler except first and last, but the last amended in pen-and-ink. (Manuscript notes in outer margins shaved, nonetheless a tall and wide copy.)
BINDING: Vellum boards, red and green-stained edges. PROVENANCE: ALL MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS TO THE TEXT MADE AT THE ALDINE SHOP as identified and listed by Bühler (except the second on a6r and the one on d1r, which have been left uncorrected), to which can be added several corrections on f8r and A SUBSTANTIAL INSERTION on i1r (see illustration); an early-16th-century reader has added brief comments in the margins of more than two dozen pages, in a fine and bold hand; foliation LXXXVI-CLIII, showing the copy once formed part of a tract volume
FIRST EDITION. This edition forms something of an oddity in the list of Aldus's early productions. It is evident that he acted merely as printer of this patriotic text, his name is entirely absent, and it was to the author that a privilege had been made out, on 26th June 1496; incidentally, the three paper stocks represented in this copy seem not to recur in other Aldus editions. "Benedetti was a fashionable Venetian doctor who had served with the army during the campaign against the French in 1495, and now sought literary fame by producing a personal account which he peppered liberally with compliments to influential noblemen. He bore the costs of the edition, and Aldus did not add his own name. But correspondence reveals that Benedetti was a close friend of Giorgio Valla, the public lecturer through whose good offices Aldus made his own entrance into Venetian high society. It was worth obliging such a man. In odd contrast to the coherently planned Greek editions, these Latin texts should serve to remind us that Aldus had his supporters, as well as his ideals to satisfy." (Lowry p. 117). IN CRISP CONDITION. H *805; GW 863; BMC V, 555; Goff A-389; IGI 1460; Klebs 173.1; Murphy 9; Sansoviniana 10; Laurenziana 10; Scapecchi 13; In Praise p. 45; R 260:9