La Thebaide di Statio / ridotta dal sig. Erasmo di Valvasone in ottaua rima ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)

Contributor:

Franceschi, Francesco de, printer.

Targa, Pietro.

Erasmo, da Valvasone, 1523-1593.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Thebais. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)--Poetry.

Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology).

Epic poetry, Latin--Translations into Italian.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Polynices (Greek mythological figure)--Poetry.

Polynices.

Polynices (Greek mythological figure).

Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character)--Poetry.

Eteocles.

Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character).

Thebes (Greece)--Poetry.

Thebes (Greece).

Genre:

Poetry.

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

Penn Provenance:

Comerio, Agostino, 1784-1829 (autograph)

Convento SS. Cosma e Damiani (Italy) (inscription)

Discalced Augustinians (Italy) (inscription)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 159 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

aiso o.o, a.a, MaNi (3) 1570 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Francesco de' Franceschi Senese, MDLXX [1570]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴ A-V⁸.

Variant recorded lacking date of imprint on title page. Cf. EDIT 16 CNCE 27874.

With a preface and annotations by Pietro Targa, pseudonym of Cesare Pavesi.

Text printed in double columns.

"Alle illustrissime, & eccellentissime madama Lucretia Estense della Rouere principessa d'Vrbino, et madama Leonora da Este."

Errata on recto of leaf V8.

Woodcuts: vignette on title page; initials.

Printer's device on title page depicts Peace, illustrated by a woman sitting next to a column, her right hand resting on a cornucopia and her left hand holding an olive branch; recorded as Zappella 915 in EDIT 16.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy with ms inscription: A. Ae D[otto]re(?) Agostino Comerio, 1810, possibly Agostino Comerio, 1784-1829, Italian painter and etcher

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription of Discalced Augustinians on verso of title leaf reading: Est Con[ven]tus S.S. Cosm[ae] et Damiani [...] Erem[itar]um Discal[ceator]um S.P. Augustini "

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 27995

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 646

OCLC:

47140622