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June 1518-April-September 1519
PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano. Opera omnia [prosa]. Ed. Gian Francesco Torresano (Franciscus Asulanus, d. after 1549). Narrow 4° (197 x 120mm), 3 volumes. Collation: v.I *4 (title with device 3, list of contents for all three volumes, editor's dedicatory letter to Altobello Averoldi, Pope Leo X's legate to Venice) a-z aa-ss8 (De obedientia, De fortitudine, De principe, De liberalitate, De beneficentia, De magnificentia, De splendore, De conviventia, De prudentia, De magnanimitate, De fortuna, De immanitate, -ss8 blank); v.II A-Z AA-QQ8 RR6 (title, De aspiratione, -F8 blank, Charon, Antonius, Actius, Aegidius, Asinus, De sermone, De bello Neapolitano); v.III aaa-zzz AAA-RRR8 (Centum sententiae Ptolemaei, Lat. tr. Pontanus with notes, De rebus coelestibus, De luna incompl. text, letter to Petrus Valla & Johannes Ferrarius, another to Actius Syncerus, letters by Pontano's editor, Pietro Summonte (1463-1526). Latin poems by Giovanni Pardo and Girolamo Carbone, indices, errata, geographical guide by Summonte to Pontano's works, quire register to all vols., device 3). 331 (without last blank), 317 (without the blank) and 320 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 39 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Light marginal staining in places.)
BINDING: 18th-century French mottled calf, gilt spines, red edges. PROVENANCE: Pultius Sbarra (early ownership entry in v.2); C.P. Villa 1846 (entered in v.1).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION of Pontano's collected orations, dialogues and other prose. COMPLETE SETS ARE RARE: in most copies of vol. 2 fo. H8 has been cancelled by the censor (a passage mocking bishops and monks), in some even the entire dialogue Charon (see F. Soave Bibl. Ald. cat. item 42). Isaac 12882, 12892, 12895; Adams P-1860; Murphy 147, 156, 161; R 82:3, 87:6, 87:7
PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano. Opera omnia [prosa]. Ed. Gian Francesco Torresano (Franciscus Asulanus, d. after 1549). Narrow 4° (197 x 120mm), 3 volumes. Collation: v.I *4 (title with device 3, list of contents for all three volumes, editor's dedicatory letter to Altobello Averoldi, Pope Leo X's legate to Venice) a-z aa-ss8 (De obedientia, De fortitudine, De principe, De liberalitate, De beneficentia, De magnificentia, De splendore, De conviventia, De prudentia, De magnanimitate, De fortuna, De immanitate, -ss8 blank); v.II A-Z AA-QQ8 RR6 (title, De aspiratione, -F8 blank, Charon, Antonius, Actius, Aegidius, Asinus, De sermone, De bello Neapolitano); v.III aaa-zzz AAA-RRR8 (Centum sententiae Ptolemaei, Lat. tr. Pontanus with notes, De rebus coelestibus, De luna incompl. text, letter to Petrus Valla & Johannes Ferrarius, another to Actius Syncerus, letters by Pontano's editor, Pietro Summonte (1463-1526). Latin poems by Giovanni Pardo and Girolamo Carbone, indices, errata, geographical guide by Summonte to Pontano's works, quire register to all vols., device 3). 331 (without last blank), 317 (without the blank) and 320 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 39 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Light marginal staining in places.)
BINDING: 18th-century French mottled calf, gilt spines, red edges. PROVENANCE: Pultius Sbarra (early ownership entry in v.2); C.P. Villa 1846 (entered in v.1).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION of Pontano's collected orations, dialogues and other prose. COMPLETE SETS ARE RARE: in most copies of vol. 2 fo. H8 has been cancelled by the censor (a passage mocking bishops and monks), in some even the entire dialogue Charon (see F. Soave Bibl. Ald. cat. item 42). Isaac 12882, 12892, 12895; Adams P-1860; Murphy 147, 156, 161; R 82:3, 87:6, 87:7