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Elegant text printed in large round type surrounded by the commentary by Domizio Calderino in smaller body; numerous handwritten contemporary annotations in the margins. Ownership notes by Pietro Lanino on the blank recto of the first sheet, which bears the index on the reverse, and finally the same hand annotated some assumptions about the publisher on 5 lines.
The text takes up the 1475 edition of Arnold Pannartz, the monk who, together with Conrad Sweynheym, introduced the technique of movable type printing in Italy. Uncommon: present in Italian libraries in only six complete copies (and 5 incomplete) and 4 in US libraries.
The work includes the text and commentary, dedicated to Agostino Maffei, of the Selve di Stazio, the comments, dedicated to Francesco d'Aragona, of Ovid's epistle from Sappho to Faone and some dark places by Propertius, a second epistle to the Aragona del Calderini, famous and fruitful humanist who was in close relationship with Cardinal Bessarion. This Calderinian miscellany went through numerous reprints.
In excellent condition, on the blank verso of the last sheet, with an ink drawing depicting a wind rose, with the dials named in Greek, Latin and Italian. Ex libris Dionisi verso of the front endpaper.
The Dionisi family is among the oldest of Verona's nobility: the Marquis Gabriele (1719-1808) was the architect of the renovation of the villa in Ca' del Lago di Cerea as well as the reorganization and updating of the library. The Dionisi family had assigned the function of library and reading room to the main floor, an early example of a cultural center where artists and men of letters gathered. After the dispersion of the thousands of volumes from the old collection, it now keeps the books on contemporary art furniture from the Aldo Morelato Foundation.
Goff S698; CIBN S-384; Polain(B) 3589; IGI 9153; BMC VII 1145; GW M43288
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