Le comedie del facetissimo Aristofane / tradutte di greco in lingua commune d'Italia per Bartolomio & Pietro Rositini de Prat' Alboino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristophanes.

Contributor:

Rositini, Bartolomeo, active 16th century.

Rositini, Pietro, active 16th century.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. Italian 1545

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes--Translations into Italian.

Aristophanes.

Greek drama (Comedy)--Early works to 1800.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

Britwell Court Library (former owner) (Culture Class Collection)

Hornby, Charles Harry St. John, 1867-1946 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Dring, Edmund Maxwell, 1906-1990 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

304 leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

o.ro o?e. i.ra daNo (3) 1545 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venegia : Apresso Vicenzo Vaugris, a'l segno d'Erasmo, MDXLV [1545]

Contents:

(from t. p. verso) Il Pluto, = Ploũtos.

Le Nebule, = Nephelai

Le rane, = Batrachoi.

I cauallieri, = Ippeĩs.

L'Arcane, = Acharneĩs.

Le vespe, = Sphũkes.

Gli vcelli, = Horni[z?]es.

La pace. = Eirēnē.

Le congreganti, = Ekklēsiaxousai.

Le cereali, = Thesmophoriasousai.

La Lisistrata, = Lysistratē.

Notes:

Printed in italics.

Italian translation of the comedies of Aristophanes by Pietro and Bartolomeo Rositini.

Woodcuts: device on title page and on verso of final leaf; initials.

Printer's device on title page identified as Zappella 1035 in EDIT 16 with a variant device at end.

This issue not recorded in EDIT 16 which only records a variant printed with 302 leaves (CNCE 2862).

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-P⁸.

Leaves 25 and 32 misfoliated as 27 and 30.

First Italian translation of the "corpus" of the 11 surviving comedies of Aristophanes.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has book label: "From the Library of C.H. St. John Hornby Shelley House, Chelsea", from Charles Harry St. John Hornby (1867-1946)

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription: "From the Britwell Library, Sotheby's 1917", presumably from the sale of Britwell Court Library, a collection of rare books originally formed by William Henry Miller (1789-1848).

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. Quaritch collation note: "Collated & complete pp. B. Quaritch Ltd, EMD [i.e. Edmund Maxwell Dring]."

Cited in:

Adams A1721

Index Aureliensis 107.657

Haym, N.F. Biblioteca italiana (1803), II, p. 229

OCLC:

16160698