Pasquillorum tomi duo : quorum primo uersibus ac rhythmis, altero soluta oratione conscripta quamplurima continentur, ad exhilarandum, confirmandu[n]cq[ue] hoc perturbatissimo rerum statu pij lectoris animum, apprime conducentia : eorum catalogum proxima à praefatione pagella reperies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curione, Celio Secondo, 1503-1569.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Humanists--Early works to 1800.

Humanists.

Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Pasquinades.

Penn Provenance:

Cox, Edwin Marion (bookplate)

Chillingham Castle (label)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 199, 100-537, that is, 637 pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

cie- 1817 t.as FoAu (3) 1544 (R)

Place of Publication:

Elevtheropoli [that is, Basel?] : [Joannes Oporinus], MDXLIIII [1544]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-R⁸.

Woodcut initials.

Errors in pagination: p. 200-637 misnumbered 100-537.

Paged continously. Second volume begins on p. 123 with no title-page.

Probably published in Basle by Johann Oporinus. Cf. Adams and VD16.

The place of publication "Elevtheropoli" is identified in Glaister as a "free city", usually an illegal book.

The collection contains many extremely remarkable satires of the Humanists against the "obscuri viri." It contains the "Trias Romana" by Hutten, in German and Latin, as well as "Pasquillus" D. Erasmo Toterdamo. Many satires can not be obtained any more in original form. L. Schubert has translated single pieces therefrom in "Neue Literature u. Völkerkunde, 1788, March, p. 235, April, p. 337."

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown leather with gold-tooled panel on covers; five raised bands on spine; title stamped in gold on spine; all edges gilt; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; green silk marker.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Edwin Marion Cox, American physician living in London in the first part of the 20th century, on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has the label of Chillingham Castle on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has [8] leaves of ms. notes in two early hands that may possibly contain the text of some Pasquinades.

Cited in:

Adams P390

Brunet. Manuel du libraire, IV, 410

VD 16 C6433

Contains:

Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523. Trias Romana.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Pasquillus.

Andrelini, Publio Fausto, 1462-1518. Julius exclusus.

OCLC:

64037462