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De miseria humana / Petri Haedi Portunaensis libri quinque.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cavretto, Pietro, approximately 1424-approximately 1504.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered leaves, 64 leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
- Fingerprint:
- a,n- i-o- m.nt quPA (3) 1558 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- [Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLVIII [1558]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-R⁴ (A4 blank).
- Leaf [4] (1st group) is blank.
- Device of the Academia Veneta (Zappella 507) on title page.
- Printed by Paolo Manuzio. Edition limited to 825 copies. Cf. Renouard.
- Written in imitation of Cicero's Tusculan disputations.
- Last page blank.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Orationes clarorum hominum, vel honoris officiique causa ad principes, vel in funere de virtutibus eorum habitae. [Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLIX [1559] -- Barozzi, Francesco. Francisci Barocii patritii Veneti Opusculum, in quo vna oratio, & duae quaestiones ... Patauii : E.G.P., MDLX [1560] -- Sadoleto, Jacopo. Duo tum grauissima, tum lepidissima poemata heroica. [Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLIX [1559] -- Muret, Marc-Antoine. M. Antonii Mureti Variarum lectionum libri VIII. Venetiis : Ex officina Iordani Zilleti, MDLIX [1559]
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full leather over bevelled-edge wooden boards; blind-stamped images of the four evangelists on front and back covers; three raised bands on spine; partially effaced title in ms. on spine; two metal clasps.
- Cited in:
- Adams H2
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 323
- EDIT 16 CNCE 9258
- Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. 272, no. 12
- Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 507
- OCLC:
- 54229627
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