Peplus Italiae : Io. M. Toscani opus, in quo illustres viri grammatici, oratores, historici, poëtae, mathematici, philosophi, medici, iurisconsulti (quotquot trecentis ab hinc annis tota Italia floruerunt) eorúmque partriae, professiones, & litterarum monumenta tum carmine tum soluta oratione recensentur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toscano, Giovanni Matteo, 1500?-1576.

Contributor:

Morel, Fédéric, 1523-1583, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Biblioteca Albani (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 128 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

e-lo s.s, t.,& &dtr (3) 1578 (A)

Place of Publication:

Lutetiae : Ex officina Federici Morelli ..., 1578.

Notes:

"Americus Vespucius," p. 28-29.

"Franciscus Petrarca.": p. 4-5. Latin verse, with notes.

In verse, with prose notes.

Signatures: ã⁸ A-H⁸.

Woodcut initials; head-pieces.

Errata statement on p. 118.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine; remains of two leather ties.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic note on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp from the Reale Biblioteca Borbonica, now the Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy), on title page and leaf ã2r.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Biblioteca Albani (initials "B A" beneath a galero) on title page.

Cited in:

Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 469, Pet SET 78

OCLC:

63894100