URCEO, ANTONIO CODRO (2 Ergebnisse)

elenchon versa pagina enumerabit. Basilae : Henricum Petrum. [ MDXL ] 1540. 4th edition ( ? ). 4to. ( 179mm. ) Pp. [32], 1 - 431 [1]. Title page very lightly browned, and some very small ink stains offset on the title page from a rather lengthy manuscript note copied from Brunet on the verso of the facing leaf. Occasional very light water stains in the head margins, number of five line initials in the text. Several small pencil annotations in light pencil in the margins, ' YYet ' in ink in small letters adjacent to sigs. Zz [1] to Zz3 ; in other respects a very clean copy. Printer's device on the title page and verso of the last leaf. Lightly pencilled notes on the recto's of the front and rear endpaper. I8th century rebind of paste paper in red, brown and yellow colours using a thumb - swirl pattern, over rubbed boards, corners bumped, edges showing some shelf wear, ink manuscript paper label on the spine. Contents - Codri vita à Bartholomaeo Blanchino Bononiensi condita ad Mimum Roscium senatorem Bononiensem -- Ant. Cod. Urcei sermones XV -- Ant. Cod. Urcei epistolae -- Ant. Cod. Urcei sylvarum libri II -- Ant. Cod. Urcei epigrammata -- Vergilii Porti Mutinensis carmina -- Joannis Pinis epistola et epigramma -- Philippi Beroaldi epistola. The printer's device of the Swiss printer Heinrich Petri represents Thor's hammer, held by a hand issuing from the clouds, striking fire on the rock, while a head , symbolising the wind, blows upon it. Overall a very good copy of a post-incunable, housed in a slip case. A work by the Italian humanist and famous Greek scholar Antonio Urceo ( 1446 - 1500 ) who was known as Urceo Codro, and was born in Rubiera, near Modena, Italy. He studied at Modena under Gaspar Tribaco, and at Ferrara under Battista Guarini and Luca Ripa who taught him Greek. At Bologna In 1480 he taught grammar, rhetoric and poetry, where Nicholas Copernicus was one of his pupils. He corresponded with and became a great friend and confidante of the printer Aldus Manutius who dedicated his collected work of the Greek epistolographers to Urceo. For more details of Urceo see - Biographical Dictionary of Italians, Vol. 29. Urceo's publications are rarely seen for sale, this is a seemingly a rare book - OCLC FirstSearch ( on-line 5 / 20 ) traces only five copies, all in France - Bibliotheque Nationale. Iniversity of Strasbourg. Lyon-Biu-Lsh. Lyon-Inrp. Paris-Mazarine. OCLC: 866581266. The Library Hub Discover ( on-line 5/20 ) adds - Warburg Institute, London. Not traced in Adams. Brunet, Vol II, p121.

First Edition. Two parts in one volume, folio, ff.110 [of, 112 lacking bifolium G1.6]; 60 [of 62, lacking bifolium H1.6], woodcut Benedetti device to colophon; ink splash to title, occasional stains and signs of use elsewhere, upper outer corner of last two leaves repaired with no loss to text (last page laid down); eighteenth-century half vellum with drab paper sides, ink titling and small paper shelfmark label to spine; with marginal annotations and underlining to approx.270pp.in a sixteenth-century Italian hand.First edition of a quintessential piece of Italian humanism, annotated by a sixteenth-century reader particularly interested in the philology of the texts. Antonio Urceo (1446 1500) was a poet and a professor of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and Greek at Bologna, and was engaged as a tutor by the patrician family Ordelaffi. He taught several exceptional pupils, the most illustrious being Nicolaus Copernicus; among other prominent followers was Filippo Beroaldo the younger, who prepared this edition of his teacher's collected works. 'The volume of collected work, lovingly edited soon after Urceo's death, in 1502, by his most devoted disciples (Filippo Beroaldo the younger, with the help of Jean de Pins and Bartolomeo Bianchini, and the encouragement of Antonio Galeazzo Bentivoglio, to whom the edition is dedicated) contains, besides the lectures, a small gathering of Epistolae, two books of Sylvae in verse, one Aegloga and a book of Epigrams. More than half of the volume is taken up by the lectures, which stand as the most eloquent witness to his life and his teachings' (DBI trans.). This copy was annotated by a meticulous reader, eager most of all to hunt down corrections to editors of Classics from the previous generation, embodying the contemporary spirit of dedicated minute philological enquiry as a cultural mission which transcended the mere individual texts. Barbarus, Beroaldus, Calderinus, and others are subjected to Urceo's fine-eyed analysis, which the annotator embraces and expands in the margins in a close dialogue. Expertise in Greek is also displayed in the careful and correct transcriptions of apt quotes. Adams U64; Brunet II, 121 ('Edition originale de cet ouvrage rare et recherché'); EDIT16 32581. Language: Latin.