Discorso di Francesco Anguilla, sopra quell'oda di Safo, che comincia : parmi quell'huomo eguale esser à i dei : con alcune rime amorose, del medesimo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anguilla, Francesco.

Contributor:

Ziletti, Giordano, active 16th century, 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):

Sappho.

Opsopäus, Vincentius.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Discorso di Francesco Angvilla, sopra qvell'oda di Safo, che comincia

Fingerprint:

o.e, e.n- o.o, "lqu (3) 1572 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti, e compagni, MDLXXII [1572]

Notes:

Printer's device (Zappella 365) on title page; woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

Includes the Greek text of the ode by Sappho & the Italian translation by Anguilla.

Signatures: A-K⁴.

"First edition. The first part consists of a critical essay on an ode by Sappho; the second part contains Anguilla's love poems. At the end is Anguilla's translation of Lucian's treatise on macrobiotics, preceded by a criticism of Vincentius Obsopoeus's translation of the same treatise." Cf. bookseller's description.

"I Macrobi" by Lucianus, translated by Francesco Anguilla: p. 73-80.

"Annotationi di Francesco Anguilla. Sopra la traduttione [dal Luciano] di Vincenzo Obsopeo": pages 69-73.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's description laid in.

Cited in:

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, I, 131

Contains:

Lucian, of Samosata. Macrobii. Italian.

OCLC:

701795255