Le vite de gli huomini illustri Greci et Romani di Plutarco Cheroneo sommo filosofo et historico / tradotte nuouamente da M. Francesco Sansovino ; con le tauole copiossisime delle cose notabili ; che si contengono nella prima & seconda parte, poste nel fine ; con sommariij, & utili postille, che dichiarano i luoghi oscuri de'testi per uia di discorsi ; con una tauola di monti, di città, di isole, di fiumi, & di mari, nella quale si dichiarano i nomi antichi co'moderni, come si puo uedere nel fin delle tauole ; Et con le figure de capitani, & de re de quali si tratta, poste in disegno, & cauate dalle medaglie antiche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plutarch.

Contributor:

Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.

Valgrisi, Vincenzo, active 1540-1572, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lives. Italian

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Biblioteca Rosales Bernate (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ordoño de Rosales Cigalini (former owner) (Culture Class Collection copy)

La Medicea (Florence, Italy) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, 726 pages, 30 unnumbered pages; 583 pages, 33 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Vite de gli hvomani illvstri Greci et Romani di Plutarco Cheroneo sommo filosofo et historico

Vite ge gli huomani illustri Greci et Romani

Fingerprint:

tel- erma a-ri tono (3) 1564 (A) v.1

e.si aci- seta pebi (3) 1564 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1564.

Notes:

Vol. 2 has date 1563 on title page but date in colophon is 1564. Cf. Grässe, BM STC Italian.

Printed marginalia.

Each biography is preceded by is a brief summary of the subject's life surrounded by an elaborate woodcut border containing his portrait on a medal.

Part 2 has title page dated (1563) which reads: Delle vite de gli huomini illustri greci et romani di Plutarco Cheroneo ... / tradotte nuouamente da m. Francesco Sansouino, parte seconda con due tauole, ... con la dichiaratione di molti luoghi che ... erano oscuri & corrotti, & hora si sono alla lorsana lettione restituiti. - In Venetia : appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1563.

Includes indexes.

Printer's device identified as Zappella 1036 in EDIT 16.

Signatures: v.1. *⁴ A-2Y⁸ 2Z-3C⁴ 3D²; v.2. a-2n⁸ 2o-2s⁴.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy IMPERFECT. Library has part 1 only; wanting part 2.

Culture Class Collection copy with v.1 wanting index on final six leaves (3C1-3C4 and 3D1-3D2)

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on title page now crossed out and illegible.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate "Biblioteca Rosales, Bernate" (with shelf marks FF 5 15) belonging to Ordoño de Rosales Cigalini family or possibly to Luigi Ordoño de Rosales Cigalini.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's label "La Medicea" Libri rari e di cultura Firenze"

Cited in:

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, V, p. 370

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 529

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Lexicon bibliographicum, III, p. 391

Haym, N. Biblioteca Italiana (1771) p. 9, no.6

EDIT16 (WWW) CNCE 38186

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P470

Contains:

Delle vite de gli huomini illustri greci et romani di Plutarco Cheroneo.

OCLC:

46545156