‎OVIDIUS NASO, Publius - Lodovico DOLCE :‎
‎Le Trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce. In questa quarta impressione da lui in molti luoghi ricorrette.‎

‎" Vinegia ( Venezia ) , appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557 ( 4th edition ) , in-4°, 228 x 158 mm, (16)nn pp + 309 pp + (1)(registro) + (1) (bl) + (1)(printer's mark). Complete. Bound in somewhat later half vellum with marbled boards, manuscript title on smooth spine. With an old manuscript ex-libris in ink underneath the title; '' Bibliotheca .P. Abrendii Cremones ''(?). Very fine copy of the fourth edition , with on page 3 the Mappa Mundi with North America named as ''Terra del Bacalaos and Nueva Hispania ''. This fourth edition is rare, not in Adams. USTC 845814. On Dolci's original paraphrase of Ovidius see Ronnie H. Terpening; '' Lodovico Dolce Renaissance Man of Letters''. (Toronto 1997). On the illustrator of this book ( A. Rusconi ; ca. 1520 - 1587) , later a collaborator of Palladio, see Guthmüller, '' Ovidio Metamorphoseos Vulgare ; Formen und Funktionen der Sprachlichen Wiedergabe klassischer Dichtung in der Italienischen Renaissance.'' ( Boppard am Rhein, 1981). ( with grateful ref. to University of Virginia Library - Etext)."‎

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