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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasius, Curius Lancilottus.

Contributor:

Salio, Martino, 16th century.

Ranoto, Antonio, active 1516-1533, printer.

Hébert, Eustache, active 1519-1520, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.

Latin language.

Latin language--Grammar.

Latin language--Usage--Early works to 1800.

Latin language--Style--Early works to 1800.

Latin language--Style.

Rhetoric, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Latin language--Usage.

Penn Provenance:

Vincenzo Armando, 1858-1928 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, CCXXI leaves, 15 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Titulus de litteratura non vulgari

De litteratura non vulgari

Fingerprint:

utio i.i. s-ro incu (3) 1520 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Turin] : Hasce in institutione gra[m]matica obseruationes non vulgares Antonius Ranotus & Eustachius Herbertus in Augusta Taurinorum imprimeba[n]t, anno a partu Deiparae MDXX VI Id. Octobris [10 Oct. 1520]

Summary:

Literary encyclopedia compiled by Curius Lancilottus Pasius (Curio Lancellotto Pasio), humanist and professor at Reggio Emilia and Parma. The work is not just a grammar or even a treatise on rhetoric, but a summary of all aspects of writing in Latin. It covers the many rhetorical topics relating to organization and expression, as well as the basics of grammar and prosody. The book is distinguished by frequent and extensive references and quotations from the leading contemporary humanists, such as Valla, Filelfo, and Gaza, as well as authorities of ancient times, and emphasizes proper idiom and literary style.

Notes:

Printed marginalia.

Imprint from colophon.

Date of imprint is ambiguous: it could be MDXX VI Id. Octobris [10 Oct. 1520] or MDXXVI Id. Oct. [15 Oct. 1526]; Bersano Begey uses 1520; NUC uses 1526.

Signatures: 2A⁸ a-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ [maltese cross]⁸ 2[maltese cross]⁶.

Woodcuts: large white historiated initials.

Title page printed in red and black; title in gothic type; text and marginal references printed in roman type.

Errors corrected by Martino Salio.

Laudatory poems at beginning of work.

Includes index.

Not in Adams or BM STC Italian.

Local Notes:

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

Culture Class Collection copy has a few ms. underlines throughout.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Vincenzo Armando on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has watermark with initials "P M F" on back free endpaper.

Cited in:

Bersano Begey, M. Cinquecentine piemontesi, v. 1, p. 301, no. 409

NUC pre-1956 444:66

OCLC:

655900325