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Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni / tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi, con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LatC C9479 Ei558p 1559
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia Alexandri Magni. Italian
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Alexander.
- Generals--Greece--Biography.
- Generals.
- Greece.
- Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
- History.
- Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 72 unnumbered pages, 249 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
- Q. Cvrtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
- Fingerprint:
- a,i- i.o. roe- dati (3) 1559 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, MDLVIIII [1559]
- Notes:
- Colophon bears imprint date MDLVIII [1558]
- "Lettera d'Alessandro magno del sito d'India" on p. 235-249.
- Printer Giolito Ferrari's device on title page (identified as Zappella 534) depicts a phoenix atop a brazier within which are the initials GGF, flanked by winged lions with motto: "De la mia morte eterna vita I vivo"; variant device at end of phoenix facing the sun identified as U89 in EDIT 16.
- Errata on verso of leaf 3*8.
- Signatures: *-4*⁸ 5*⁴ A-P⁸ Q⁶.
- Last leaf blank.
- Woodcuts: devices on title page and on last leaf; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- Italian translation of: Historia Alexandri Magni.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy wanting blank leaf at end.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms initials "G.L." on either side of deivce as well as with initials "T.F." or "T.E." added in ms within device; another faint inscription within device reads: "[...] Genuensis"; also inscribed: "Ex libris ... [unreadable]
- Cited in:
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 207
- EDIT 16 CNCE 13886
- Bongi, S. Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, II, p. 62-64
- Contains:
- Lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India.
- OCLC:
- 270814877
- Publisher Number:
- PML 150527 JPW 1801
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