31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 37
 

Latin Classics.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius)

Latin Classics.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius)

Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII, 2 parts in one, includes 'Declamationes', woodcut printer’s device on title, initials, slight worming to first 3 leaves, gatherings A-D upper right corner burnt, light browning, some intermittent spotting or foxing, occasional marginalia and marking, ownership notes on title (Io. A. Feretti, possibly Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, future Pope Pius IX), front free endpaper, Y8 verso and last leaf (Alfonso & Bellisario Bulgarini from Siena, 16th century), contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, soiled and a little wormed, lacking leather ties, extremities rubbed, 4to, Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon, 1544; with Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Opera Omnia, woodcut architectural title, restored, ornaments, double column, light browning, spotting throughout, ex libris Mario Cuciniello, contemporary vellum, yapped edges, joints weak, corners rubbed, spine tale damaged with loss, 8vo, Guillaume de Laimarie, Lyon, 1594 (2)

First title provenance: Alfonso and Bellisario Bulgarini, aristocrats from Siena. Educated in Siena, Bellisario was among the founders of the Accesi degli Accesi (1558-1564) and of the Corte dei Ferraioli (ca. 1570), as well as a member of the Venetian Academy, and a very active protagonist of the reopening of the Accademia degli Intronati (1603). Author of vernacular translations (the III book of Hieroglyphica by Piero Valeriano, Venezia, De’ Franceschi, 1602), rhymes and comedies, Bellisario also played a main role within the late 16th century debates on poetics and, especially, on Dante's Comedy. He wrote seven treatises about the ‘imperfection’ of Dante's Comedy, based on the ‘Discorso’ of Ridolfo Castravilla.

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