Estimate
€ 100 - 200
Sold
€ 699
The price includes buyer's premium
Do you have a similar item you would like to sell?
Information
Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, undated [18th century]. In 24°. Woodcut title page with representations of Virgil and Annibal Caro, winged figures and cherubs, 12 full-page woodcut plates at the beginning of each canto, handwritten notes on the flyleaves, slight foxing. Contemporary loose parchment binding, defects and signs of aging, title on the edges, first quire partially detached, contemporary parchment binding, spine and front cover detached from the body of the book, some losses and defects. § Claudianus, Cl. Claudianus ex optimorum codicum fide, Milan, Typis Ludovici Montiae, sa [c.ca 1650]. In 24°. Beautiful engraved title page, contemporary parchment binding, author's manuscript on the lower edge, slight defects.
Specialist Notes
A rare seventeenth-century edition of Virgil's Aeneid, embellished with twelve elegant woodcuts at the beginning of each canto. The text features Annibal Caro's celebrated translation, produced between 1563 and 1566 and published posthumously in 1581. Among the many Italian versions of Virgil, Caro's is still considered the most illustrious: subsequent translations may be credited with greater fidelity to the Latin text, more rigorous philological adherence, and a deeper understanding of Virgil's poetry, but none will match the grace, fluidity, and charm of the "beautiful infidel," rich in those stylistic flourishes rarely found in more severe or neglected works.
Contact
Suggested lots
Caricamento lotti suggeriti...
