La prima parte delle Vite di Plutarcho di greco in latino in volgare / tradotte [et] nouamente con sue historie ristampate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plutarch.

Contributor:

Jaconello, Battista Alessandro.

Bordoni, Giulio.

Zoppino, Nicolò, active 1508-1544, 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

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (CCCIII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf; CCXV leaves, 17 unnumbered leaves) : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

reer hia- a-a- frli (3) 1525 (R) v.1

e-i& dere cea- reQu (3) 1525 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Stampate in Vinegia : Per Nicolao di Aristotile detto Zoppino, ..., nel anno di nostra salute MDXXV del mese di luglio [July 1525]

Notes:

Printer and place of publication supplied from colophon.

Title within woodcut border; v.2 has title printed in red and black with different border.

Signatures: v.1: A-2P⁸; v.2: a-2d⁸, 2A-2B⁸ (leaf 2d8 blank).

Volume 1 recorded as variant A in EDIT 16.

Each biography preceded by historiated woodcut representing the subject's life.

Volume 2 has title: La seconda & ultima parte delle Vitae di Plutarcho di greco in latino et di latino in volgare nuouamente tradotte et historiate.

Printer's device on title page identified as Zappella 895 in EDIT16.

Part 1 translated by Jaconello. Part. 2 translated by Giulio Bordone.

"Vita di Marco Bruto": on [16] leaves following colophon of v. 2.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Baron Lloyd Kenyon.

Culture Class Collection copy has ownership inscription (Magdalene College Cambridge 6 October 1936 G. David [...]) with surname portion of former owner's name erased.

Culture Class Collection copy wantling last leaf (2P8) of v.1 (presumably blank)

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full leather with gilt gauffered edges.

Cited in:

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien, no. 5788-5789

EDIT16 (WWW) CNCE 41051

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P469

Cathedral Libraries catalogue P1251

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Lexicon bibliographicum, III, p. 390

Contains:

Plutarch. Vita di Marco Bruto.

Seconda & ultima parte delle vitae di Plutarcho di greco in latino.

OCLC:

15536658