Le historie Auguste di Cornelio Tacito / nouellamente fatte italiane ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tacitus, Cornelius

Contributor:

Valgrisi, Vincenzo, active 1540-1572, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Annales. Italian. 1544

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Statesmen.

Oratory, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

Oratory, Ancient.

Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.

Rome.

Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

422, [2] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Historie Avgvste di Cornelio Tacito

Fingerprint:

m-li seha deel famo (3) 1544 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Vincenzo Vaugris ..., MDXLIII [1544]

Notes:

Italian translation of Tacitus's "Annales" (Books I-V, XI-XVI) as well as his "Historiae" (Books I-V)

"Historiae" follows "Annales" numbered in continuation as books 17-21.

Woodcut initials; devices.

Woodcut printer's device on title page, depicting a serpent coiled around a stick supported by hands emerging from clouds is recorded as U72 in EDIT 16; variant device on verso of penultimate leaf (3G7) recorded as Zappella 1035.

Signatures: A-3G⁸ (last leaf blank)

Leaves 60, 172, 228, 293, 295, and 405 misfoliated 68, 171, 238, 303, 305, and 045.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy wanting leaf 3G7 with printer's device.

Culture Class Collection copy has "No. 267" (shelf mark?) inscribed on front fly leaf.

Kislak Center copy PA6710 .A3 1544 imperfect: leaf 3G8 (blank) wanting.

Kislak Center copy PA6710 .A3 1544 has remains of bookseller's label ("Libreria Anti[...] ANGELO G[...]") on front pastedown. Dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("Cavalieri 12-1-40") in pencil on front pastedown; 2 partially illegible early manuscript inscriptions ("DI HOMERO TORTOR[...] Di Pesaro" and "[...] Pa[...]j") on title leaf. Manuscript numeral and price ("1250" and "L3.50") in ink, struck through in pencil, on back pastedown; manuscript price ("L 4-") on blank leaf following last printed leaf. Many early manuscript annotations in text.

Cited in:

Adams T45

EDIT 16 CNCE 36095

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 654

Contains:

Tacitus, Cornelius. Historiae. Italian. 1544

OCLC:

14772265