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Florence, opera & impens Philippi bibliopolæ, 1503. In 8°. Half leather binding with marbled boards. Smooth spine with author, year and gold decorations. Contains the Argonauticon edited by Benedetto Riccardini, whose name appears on f. [a]2r. Woodworms and losses in the book's binding. Handwritten annotations in brown ink. 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, after 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 17 October and 14 November 1502 to books printed in italic type anywhere in Italy, and a similar decennial privilege was granted by Pope Alexander VI on 17 December 1502, with the addition of excommunication to the penalties provided for 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 the italic in the Italian typography of the sixteenth century , 1967, pp. 106-107).
It is the third book printed by Bernardo Giunta in octavo format and with italic type, after 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 17 October and 14 November 1502 to books printed in italic type anywhere in Italy, and a similar decennial privilege was granted by Pope Alexander VI on 17 December 1502, with the addition of excommunication to the penalties provided for 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 the italic in the Italian typography of the sixteenth century , 1967, pp. 106-107).
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