Le Tragedie di Seneca / tradotte da M. Lodovico Dolce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568.

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, printer.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Tragedies. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62.

Latin drama (Tragedy)--Early works to 1800.

Latin drama (Tragedy).

Mythology, Classical--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Classical.

Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62--Drama.

Octavia.

Classical drama (Tragedy)--Early works to 1800.

Classical drama (Tragedy).

Tragedy--Early works to 1800.

Tragedy.

Genre:

Drama.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 347 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 15 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

e,a- a,o. tii; CoOr (3) 1560 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista et Marchion Sessa F., MDLX [1560]

Contents:

Hercole furioso

Thieste

Thebaide

Hippolito

Edipo

Troade

Medea

Agamennone

Ottavia

Hercole etheo.

Notes:

Imprint date from colophon.

Signatures: *¹², A⁶, B-2F¹² (last leaf blank)

Leaves printed on both sides.

Translation of Seneca's Tragedies by L. Dolce.

Contains "Octavia" which has been included with other tragedies by Seneca but was probably written by an imitator at a later date.

Woodcuts: Title vignette, head- and tailpieces, initials.

Printer's device set within ornamental frame depicting Pegasus identified as Zappella 940 and Ascarelli 81 in EDIT 16.

Error statement on leaf 347: "Gli errori delle stampe si rimettono al giudicio di chi legge."

Title vignette; head and tail pieces, initials.

Cited in:

Adams S916

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 621

Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliographie, II, p. 946

EDIT 16 CNCE 29883

Haym, N. Biblioteca Italiana (1803) II, p. 230, no.1

Contains:

Octavia (Praetexta)

OCLC:

14921470