Carlo Sigonio

SIGONIUS, Carolus (Carlo Sigonio): Fasti consulares, ac triumphi acti a' Romulo rege usque ad Ti. Caesarem.Eiusdem in Fastor, et triumphos, idest in universam Romanam historiam commentarius.Eiusdem de nominibus Romanorum liber. Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1556.
Second much enlarged and most important Aldine edition of this highly important work for the chronology of Roman history by Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone) (1524-1584). As well as the very rare first edition printed in 1550 by Ant. Gadaldin in Modena, which edition is even more concise, the first Aldine edition of 1555 under the title <I>Regum, consulum, dictatorum, ac censorum Romanorum Fasti, una cum triumphis actis </I>... is much shorter: 34 fols., without the commentary (Renouard, p. 166, nr. 16: "Elle (ed. 1555) est sans interet, vu les corrections et augmentations de la suivante de 1556 (our edition) dans laquelle se trouve un commentaire un peu long, mais necessaire pour l'usage de ces Tables chronologiques".Sigonio was an Italian humanist, born at Modena. Having studied Greek, he attended the philosophical schools of Bologna and Pavia, and in 1545 he was elected professor of Greek. In 1552 he was appointed to a professorship at Venice, which he exchanged for the chair of eloquence at Padua in 1560.To this period of his life belongs the famous quarrel with Robertelli, due to the publication of the treatise <I>De nominibus Romanorum </I>(also in our edition), in which he corrected several errors in a work of Robertelli on the same subject. Sigonius accepted (in 1563) a call to Bologna. He died in a country house purchased by him in the neighbourhood of Modena, in August 1584. The last year of his life was embittered by another literary dispute on a spurious text by Cicero. Sigonius declared that, if not genuine, it was at least worthy of Cicero; those who held the opposite view (Antonio Riccoboni, Justus Lipsius, and others) asserted that Sigonius himself had written it with the object of deceiving the learned world, a charge which he explicitly denied.Sigonius's reputation chiefly rests upon his publications on Greek and Roman antiquities, which may even now be consulted with advantage, the <I>Fasti consulares</I>, with his commentary in the first place. It is the first work in which the history of Rome is set forth in chronological order, based upon some fragments of old bronze tablets dug up in 1547 on the site of the old Forum.The most complete edition of Sigonio's works is that by P. Argelati (Milan, 1732-1737), which contains his life by L.A. Muratori, the only trustworthy authority for the biographer.<I>Contents:</I>f. 1: Title (verso blank).f. 2: Dedication of the original Modena edition to Hercules II, duke of Ferrara by Sigonio, dated Modena 7 March 1550.f. 3r-16r: Text of the<I> Fasti consulares</I> ...f. 1: Separate title for the commentary: Caroli Sigonii in Fastos consulares, ac triumphos Romanos commentarius. (Venice, Paulus Manitius, 1556) *(verso blank).f. 2r-3r: Dedication to Laurentius Priolo by Sigonio, dated Venice, 14 July 1556.f. 4r-5r: Preface.f. 5r-151r: Text of the commentary.f. 152r-169(=165)r: Caroli Sigonii De nominibus Romanorum liber.1 f. with errata.
First title a bit frayed; a few minor stains; binding slightly rubbed. Good copy with collector's ticket of 'Canterzani', and two small stamps on title (two angels with intitials 'N.B' (?).
<I>Adams S-327; Krebs, Carl Sigonius (1840), including some Latin letters of Sigonius and a complete list of his works in chronological order; Renouard, p. 169, nr. 16; Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship II (1908), p. 143; STC Italian 626; UCLA 498; cf. Franciosi, Della vita e delle opere di Carlo Sigonio (Modena, 1872).</I>

Folio. Later half mottled calf, boards covered with marbled paper. Title written on bottom edge. With the woodcut Aldine printer's device within wreath on general and part titles, woodcut initials and two small woodcuts in text. 16, 169 [=165], [1] ll.

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Sigonio, Carlo (Sigonius): Historiarum de regno Italiae, libri quindecim ... qui libri omnibus in partibus ex reconditis scriptorum monumentis adaucti, eos, qui scripti sunt de Imperio Occidentali, excipiunt, ac narrationem ab anno DLXV usque ad MCC perducunt ... Bologna, Societatem Typographiae, 1580.
Graesse VI, 403. - Adams S 1123. - Ca. 4. Ausgabe des Hauptwerkes von Carlo Sigonio (1524-1584) mit der Geschichte Italiens vom 6. bis ins 12. Jahrhundert. 1591 erschienen posthum noch 5 Bücher. Das Werk wird von den Historiographen geschätzt durch die systematische Quellenarbeit seines Verfassers. - Sauberes Exemplar. Einband an den Kapitalen durch Pergamentstreifen verstärkt. Mit vielen Wurmlöchern am Einbandrücken.

666 (recte 668) S., 33 n.n. Bl. Halbpergament des 17. Jahrhunderts mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. Folio.

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Sigonio, Carlo (Sigonius): Historiarum de regno Italiae, libri quindecim ... qui libri omnibus in partibus ex reconditis scriptorum monumentis adaucti, eos, qui scripti sunt de Imperio Occidentali, excipiunt, ac narrationem ab anno DLXV usque ad MCC perducunt ... Bologna, Societatem Typographiae, 1580.
Graesse VI, 403. - Adams S 1123. - Ca. vierte Ausgabe des Hauptwerkes von Carlo Sigonio (1524-1584) mit der Geschichte Italiens vom 6. bis ins 12. Jahrhundert. 1591 erschienen posthum noch 5 Bücher. Das Werk wird von den Historiographen geschätzt durch die systematische Quellenarbeit seines Verfassers. - Sauberes Exemplar. Einband an den Kapitalen durch Pergamentstreifen verstärkt. Mit vielen Wurmlöchern am Einbandrücken.

Folio. 666 (recte 668) S., 33 n.n. Bl. Halbpergament des 17. Jahrhunderts mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. Auflage:0

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Ctesias [und Andere]. Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica. Item, De gestis Annibalis. Omnium nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus [Graece]. [Genf], Henri Estienne 1557. 8vo. 8 Bll., 248 Ss. Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke (Schreiber 12) auf Titel. Dunkelgrüner Maroquinband um 1800 mit Rücken-, Filetenvergoldung und Goldschnitt (etwas berieben, Vorderdeckel mit kleineren Wurmspuren).

Erste Ausgabe dieser Sammlung von Fragmenten griechischer Geschichtsschreiber und Geographen. Sie enthält die Schriften des Ctesias von Knidos (5. Jh. v. Chr.) über Persien und Indien, des Agatharchides (2. Jh. v. Chr.) über Äthiopien, Arabien und die Küsten des Persischen Golfes, Memnons Geschichte der Stadt Rom, sowie zwei Abhandlungen Appians über den Spanischen Krieg und die Kriege Hannibals. Diese erscheinen hier zum ersten Mal; sie waren von Estienne in Italien entdeckt worden und nicht in der Erstausgabe von 1551 enthalten. Henri Estienne widmete das Buch dem italienischen Humanisten Carlo Sigonio. - Nummer auf Vorsatz, Alte Eintragung auf Titel, fast fleckenlos und gut erhalten. - Adams C-3020; Schreiber, Estienne 146; Renouard 117; Hoffmann I, 482.

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