细节
May-August [not before September] 1505
PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano (1429-1503). Opera [poetica]. Aldine 8° (160 x 95mm), 2 parts in one volume. Collation: a-z8 (a1r title and Aldine device Fletcher no. 4, a1v dedication to Johann Kollauer [1459-1519], a2r Urania, o4v Aldus's note to the reader on how Pontanus's composition of the brief work on meteorology related to his work on astrology, o5r Meteora, s2r De hortis Hesperidum, u8r Lepidina, y6v Meliseus, z3r Maeon, z4v Acon, z8r colophon dated in May, z8v blank); aa-ff8 gg10 (aa1r.v dedication to Suardino Suardi of Bergamo, aa2r Hendecasyllabi seu Baiae, ee3r Tumuli, ff3v Neniae, ff6v Epigrammata, gg2v index, gg10r register and colophon dated in August, gg10v device no. 3). 242 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters, 6-line woodcut floral initial S to Neniae, 3-line typographical initials. (Small stain at the end.)
PREFACE: The printer dedicates the first part of Pontanus's poetical works to the Imperial secretary in gratitude for his intervention with Emperor Maximilian on behalf of Aldus's plan to found an Academy in Germany. [This relates to Aldus's ultimately unrealized hopes of re-establishing the Greek New Academy and his press under Imperial patronage north of the Alps.] Although nothing definite has happened yet, he hopes from what Kollauer and Lang have written him, as well as from a letter from the Emperor himself, that it will soon come about; the more so since here is a king who would cover himself with literary honour as much as with military glory. Aldus dedicates the second part to Suardi, as it was to him that Pontano had sent his Baiae to be printed at Venice together with Urania.
BINDING: early-19th-century Italian vellum, gilt spine with morocco lettering-pieces. PROVENANCE: ? Luca Lucio (both inscriptions washed out)
FIRST EDITION of the poetic cycles in pt. 1, but second edition of the poetry contained in the second part (just after the September edition of the same year, prepared by Pietro Summonte for the Neapolitan press of Sigismund Mayr). For the confusions and crossed purposes connecting the Naples and Venice editions, see L. Monti Sabia, "Una schermaglia editoriale tra Napoli e Venezia agli albori del secolo XVI," in: Vichiana vi (1969), p. 319-36. Gianfrancesco Torresani published a second volume of Pontano's collected poetry, including his love poems, in 1518 (R 85:10); the collected prose was also issued from the Aldine Press, in 1518-19 (lot 70). RARE. Isaac 12809; Dionisotti & Orlandi LVII; Lowry p. 221-22; Lowry 75; Sansoviniana 109-10; Laurenziana 93; R 49:4
PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano (1429-1503). Opera [poetica]. Aldine 8° (160 x 95mm), 2 parts in one volume. Collation: a-z8 (a1r title and Aldine device Fletcher no. 4, a1v dedication to Johann Kollauer [1459-1519], a2r Urania, o4v Aldus's note to the reader on how Pontanus's composition of the brief work on meteorology related to his work on astrology, o5r Meteora, s2r De hortis Hesperidum, u8r Lepidina, y6v Meliseus, z3r Maeon, z4v Acon, z8r colophon dated in May, z8v blank); aa-ff8 gg10 (aa1r.v dedication to Suardino Suardi of Bergamo, aa2r Hendecasyllabi seu Baiae, ee3r Tumuli, ff3v Neniae, ff6v Epigrammata, gg2v index, gg10r register and colophon dated in August, gg10v device no. 3). 242 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters, 6-line woodcut floral initial S to Neniae, 3-line typographical initials. (Small stain at the end.)
PREFACE: The printer dedicates the first part of Pontanus's poetical works to the Imperial secretary in gratitude for his intervention with Emperor Maximilian on behalf of Aldus's plan to found an Academy in Germany. [This relates to Aldus's ultimately unrealized hopes of re-establishing the Greek New Academy and his press under Imperial patronage north of the Alps.] Although nothing definite has happened yet, he hopes from what Kollauer and Lang have written him, as well as from a letter from the Emperor himself, that it will soon come about; the more so since here is a king who would cover himself with literary honour as much as with military glory. Aldus dedicates the second part to Suardi, as it was to him that Pontano had sent his Baiae to be printed at Venice together with Urania.
BINDING: early-19th-century Italian vellum, gilt spine with morocco lettering-pieces. PROVENANCE: ? Luca Lucio (both inscriptions washed out)
FIRST EDITION of the poetic cycles in pt. 1, but second edition of the poetry contained in the second part (just after the September edition of the same year, prepared by Pietro Summonte for the Neapolitan press of Sigismund Mayr). For the confusions and crossed purposes connecting the Naples and Venice editions, see L. Monti Sabia, "Una schermaglia editoriale tra Napoli e Venezia agli albori del secolo XVI," in: Vichiana vi (1969), p. 319-36. Gianfrancesco Torresani published a second volume of Pontano's collected poetry, including his love poems, in 1518 (R 85:10); the collected prose was also issued from the Aldine Press, in 1518-19 (lot 70). RARE. Isaac 12809; Dionisotti & Orlandi LVII; Lowry p. 221-22; Lowry 75; Sansoviniana 109-10; Laurenziana 93; R 49:4