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