Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum…
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1548
Two parts in one volume in 8vo. 156 x 95 mm. Later stiff vellum binding, manuscript title on the spine, blue edges. 275 pages, 1 blank, [4]. Printer's device on both title pages and at the end. Second title page on page 229. Ornamented woodcut initials, marginalia in an old hand. First title page reinforced, otherwise a fine copy.
Rare first edition. Contains works by Pietro Bembo, Andrea Navagero, Baldassare Castiglione, Giovanni Cotta, Marco Antonio Flaminio. From page 229, the 'Paraphrasis in Triginta Psalmos' by Marco Antonio Flaminio follows, with its own title page.
Bound with: SOPHOCLES. Hoc libello haec continentur. Sophoclis tragici poete vita non prius in lucem edita. Eiusdem Poetae Sententiae Pulcherrimae, interpreted by Bartholomeo Marliano.
Rome, Antonio Blado, 1545
Very rare first edition, with Greek and Latin text. This is an unpublished work by Sophocles, edited by the humanist Bartolomeo Marliani, 1488-1566, eminent archaeologist, topographer and antiquarian active in Rome.
Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi, Skené, 2019. In: https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/download/67/13/446?inline=1
See Massimiliano Albanese, ‘Marliani’ in DBI, Volume 70, 2008.
Leaves [24]. Colophon at the end: “Impressum Romae per Antonium Bladum Asulanum. M. D. XXXXV.” Quire A positioned after quire B. Greek text with interlinear Latin translation. Italic type, Greek, Roman. Coat of arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Georges d'Armagnac, on the title page. Woodcut initial in the dedication. Handwritten ownership note on the colophon leaf, dated 1790. A fine copy.