Ovidius Naso. Italian editions of Metamorphosis, 16th to 19th-Century -- La Vita et Metamorfoseo d'Ovidio, Figurato & abbreviato in forma d'Epigrammi da M. Gabriello Symeoni, Lyon, per Giovanni di Tornes, 1559, 8vo, first edition of Simeoni's Italian version, woodcut portrait of Simeoni on title, 188 woodcut illustrations within ornamental borders by Bernard Salomon, Roman and italic letter text and marginalia (lacks the last 16 pages containing the 'Apologia Generale', several woodcuts crudely hand-coloured, marginal soiling), 19th-century green calf (recased) [Brunet Supp. II, 117; Brun 277; Mortimer, French Books II, 421; Murray, French Books II, 421]; and 15 others in Italian, dated 1538-1824, most illustrated (the 1538 edition of the Metamorphoses lacking title). (15)