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Florence, opera & impens Philippi bibliopolæ, 1503. In 8°. Contains the Argonauticon edited by Benedetto Riccardini, whose name appears on folio [a]2r, half leather binding with marbled boards, smooth spine with author, year, and gold decorations. Woodworms and losses to the book's binding, handwritten annotations in brown ink, and loose binding.
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First Giuntina edition of the Argonauticon, based on a text by Bartolomeo Fonzio, dedicated by Benedetto Riccardini to Bernardo Michelozzo, son of the architect and canon of the Florentine cathedral.
It is the third book printed by Bernardo Giunta in octavo format and with italic type, following the editions of Catullus and Horace (August and October 1502). Aldus Manutius was the first printer to use italic type, in 1501. The decennial privilege granted by the Venetian Senate for his invention was extended on October 17 and November 14, 1502, to books printed in italic type anywhere in Italy, and a similar decennial privilege was granted by Pope Alexander VI on December 17, 1502, with the addition of excommunication to the penalties provided by the Venetian privileges. Giunta's Catullus and Horace were line-for-line copies of Aldine editions, and flagrant violations. This Valerius Flaccus was a more subtle form of plagiarism, using italic type to convey the authority of a text that had not yet been printed by Aldus. The type remained in use until 1513, when Giunta had a new italic designed (L. Balsamo & A. Tinto, Origins of italic in sixteenth-century Italian typography , 1967, pp. 106-107).
It is the third book printed by Bernardo Giunta in octavo format and with italic type, following the editions of Catullus and Horace (August and October 1502). Aldus Manutius was the first printer to use italic type, in 1501. The decennial privilege granted by the Venetian Senate for his invention was extended on October 17 and November 14, 1502, to books printed in italic type anywhere in Italy, and a similar decennial privilege was granted by Pope Alexander VI on December 17, 1502, with the addition of excommunication to the penalties provided by the Venetian privileges. Giunta's Catullus and Horace were line-for-line copies of Aldine editions, and flagrant violations. This Valerius Flaccus was a more subtle form of plagiarism, using italic type to convey the authority of a text that had not yet been printed by Aldus. The type remained in use until 1513, when Giunta had a new italic designed (L. Balsamo & A. Tinto, Origins of italic in sixteenth-century Italian typography , 1967, pp. 106-107).
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