Dialogo di M. Lodouico Dolce : nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere e conseruar la memoria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568.

Contributor:

Romberch, Johann Horst von, active 1505-1532.

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, printer.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Mnemonics--Early works to 1800.

Mnemonics.

Penn Provenance:

Vogel von Vogelstein, Carl Christian, 1788-1868 (bookplate)

Gruner L. (inscription)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 119 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Dialogo di M. Lodovico Dolce

Fingerprint:

diij o.i. e.ma imgl (3) 1562 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa fratelli, MDLXII [1562]

Notes:

Based on Johann Romberch, von Horst's Congestorium artificiose memorie.

Printer statement and date from colophon.

Signatures: *4 A-P⁸.

First word of title in woodcut cartouche.

Printer's device (Zappella 940) on title page.

Woodcut initials.

Woodcut illustrations, many full page. Those on G4v-G7v are from blocks designed for Giorgio de' Rusconi's 1520 Venice ed. of Johann Host von Romberch's Congestorium artificiose memorie, which is the basis for this Dialogo. The blocks came to the Sessa press for a 1533 ed. of the Congestorium.Cf. Mortimer.

Erratum on colophon page.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author and title in ms. on spine; all edges blue.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein on fornt pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "L. Gruner für S. Pauli [...] Rom 1843" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. underlines throughout.

Cited in:

Adams D732

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th-cent., 157

EDIT 16 CNCE 17376

Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 540

Related Work:

Romberch, Johann Horst von, active 1505-1532. Congestorium artificiose memorie.

OCLC:

19981294