Filippo beroaldo editor (1 Ergebnisse)

[bound with:]PLINY the Younger, pseud.; Filippo BEROALDO, editor. Libellus de viris illustribus. [(Colophon:) Bologna, Benedetto Faelli, 22 January 1504 (i.e.1505).]Two works in one vol., 4to, I: ff.[76]; A10 ab8 c2 AF8; roman type, woodcut white-on-black printer's device to title and final recto; II: ff.[ii], 23, [1], roman type, woodcut white-on-black printer's device to final recto; light soiling to first two leaves, but a very good copy; bound in 1901 by Cesare Galiani of Bologna in imitation of a contemporary Bolognese binding, blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with metalwork centre- and corner-pieces and two clasps, lettered in gilt at head of upper cover 'PLINII EPISTOLAE CUM PANEGYR.' and imprint to lower cover 'BONONIAE M.DIV' (corrected from M.DII), prominent spine bands, edges gilt, endleaves of green watered silk with calf hinges; lower joins cracked; seventeenth-century inscription to title-page 'Ex libris Pauli Can[oni]ci Fiorani' (of Fiorano, near Modena), and contemporary inscription to penultimate leaf 'liber mei petri vitriani', 5 pp.with short marginal notes likely by one of these owners.A pair of Bologna printings of short works by or attributed to Pliny the Younger, both edited by Filippo Beroaldo, the first an unrecorded variant with additional text, in a fine pastiche binding by Galiani of Bologna.The letters of Pliny the Younger (61/62c.112 AD) reveal much about his personal life and the attitudes of the aristocracy after a century of imperial rule. They are generally arranged in two groups: the letters to friends, which were edited and published by Pliny himself in c.109 AD (books 19), and his correspondence with the Emperor Trajan, drawn from the imperial archives (now referred to as book 10).The first work in this volume contains Pliny's correspondence with the Emperor Trajan, 124 letters in all, followed by Pliny's speech in praise of Trajan, delivered in the Senate on 1 September 100 AD, in which he denigrates Trajan's predecessor, Domitian. The letters include his reports as governor in Pontus and Bithynia, with various legal and administrative queries, as well as mentions of the new Christian cult in his province; they 'constitute an exceptional corpus of imperial correspondence' (OCD). Bound second is a collection of lives of famous men from King Procas of Alba Longa to Pompey the Great; while it is attributed to Pliny on the title-page, it is more likely to be a fourth-century compilation.The first printing of any part of book 10 occurred in Venice on 11 May 1502, comprising letters 41121 in the modern numbering ('46 letters to Trajan recently found, with his replies'), edited by Girolamo Avanzi. The second was Beroaldo's edition of 24 January 1503 (dated more veneto, i.e.1503, not 1502), 'corrected by conjecture in fact much better than Avanzi's' (Ciapponi, p.85), containing the same group of letters, though without Avanzi's own numbering of the letters (from 27 to 73), and to which Beroaldo appended the Panegyric to Trajan.This copy, however, also contains a seemingly unrecorded printing of letters 140 of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan. All the other recorded copies of the Beroaldo 1503 edition have the collation ab8 c2 AF8 and do not have the printer's device on the title-page. The collation here, however, is A10 ab8 c2 AF8, where A1 is the title-page (now with device) and letters 140 appear on the following ten leaves (A210 and a1), resuming with letter 41 on a2r. Leaf a8 (conjoint with a1, the last leaf to contain this new text) has also been reprinted, with some variants from the original setting (it contains the end of letter 67 up to the start of letter 71). From the state of the block used for the printer's device, the device on the reprinted title must post-date the second work (dated 22 January '1504', i.e.1505, more veneto), and indeed examination of other uses of this block suggest a date of printing in the early 1510s, though the block was still being used by. …