CALDERINUS, Domitius (ca. 1446--1478). Commentarii in Martialem. And the same author's Defensio ad Corelium. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [after 22nd March] 1474.

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CALDERINUS, Domitius (ca. 1446--1478). Commentarii in Martialem. And the same author's Defensio ad Corelium. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [after 22nd March] 1474.

Chancery 2° (282 x 195mm), two pairs of pinholes visible in outer margins. Collation: a6 2a8 b-c10 d8 e-m10 n-s8 t-u6 x-z10 aa8 bb6 cc10 dd8 ee-ff10 gg12 (a1 blank, a2r author's letter to Giovanni Francesco Lodovico di Gonzaga, a2v author's dedicatory verse to Lorenzo de' Medici, a3r prose dedication to Lorenzo, a5v Calderinus's Life of Martial, a6r another letter to Lorenzo, 2a1r text In amphiteatrum Caesaris, incipit: Barbara pyramidum. Hoc primo epigrammate assentatur Domiciano, gg6v Domitii calderini veronensis defensio cum recriminatione ... ad corelium patris amplissimi cardinalis neapolitani nepotem, incipit: Non potuimus assequi, gg12r colophon, and epigram by M. Lucidus Phosphorus, incipit: Quisquis amat lepidum Vatem latiasque amat, gg12v blank). 275 leaves (without the blank first leaf). First two states of roman type 1:110A (text) and 110 Greek (quotations), identical to Vindelinus de Spira's founts. 34 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Lower outer blank corner of first four leaves repaired, bifolium m5.6 detached, some marginal damp-staining.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance: Sir George Shuckburgh (armorial bookplate).

Second edition, reprinted from Johann Gensberg's Roman edition of the same year (22nd March, GW 5887). One of the earliest productions by this partnership, which was a reconstruction of that of Johannes de Colonia and Vindelinus de Spira. Domizio Calderino, apostolic secretary to Sixtus IV, was an eminent classical scholar, who published editions of and commentaries on Virgil, Juvenal, Ovid and Quintilianus; a year after bringing Calderino's Martial commentary on the market, De Colonia and Manthen published Georgius Merula's edition of Martial's epigrams (H 10812). HC 4236; GW 5888; BMC V, 230 (IB.20220); Goff C-37; IGI 2355.

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