Seneca De benifizii / tradotto In volgar fiorentino da messer Benedetto Varchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

Contributor:

Torrentino, Lorenzo, -1563, printer.

Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De beneficiis. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Benevolence--Early works to 1800.

Benevolence.

Penn Provenance:

Biblioteca Rossi (bookplate)

Olschki, Leo S. (Leo Samuel), 1861-1940 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 204 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De benifizii

Fingerprint:

i-io i-a- mevn stci (3) 1554 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Firenze : Per Lorenzo Torrentino, stampator ducale, del mese di settembre l'anno MDLIIII [1554]

Notes:

Printer statement from colophon which reads: Stampati in Fiorenza : Per Lorenzo Torrentino, stampator ducale, del mese di settembre l'anno MDLIIII.

Title within architectural border; initials.

Device of Lorenzo Torrentino identified as Zappella 1440 in EDIT 16. The architectural border on title page includes Medici coat of arms in the upper frame and view of Florence in the lower.

Signatures: A-2D⁴ (2D4 blank)

Woodcuts: title page border; initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate: Biblioteca Rossi no. [blank].

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of publisher/bookseller/collector Leo S. Olschki on front pastedown reading: Ex libris Leonis S. Olschki Bibliopolae Veneti no. 17031 Scrin. 342.

Culture Class Collection copy with label with shelf markings "Sala. Scafale 66 Lettera D 4449" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has faded unidentified oval ownership stamp on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has initials A P K on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy with illegible inscription on p. 204. A[...] P[...] K[...]?

Cited in:

EDIT16 CNCE 34611

Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliographie, II, p. 931

Moreni, D. Annali di Lorenzo Torrentino (1811), p. 141

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 p. 621

OCLC:

15357292