HORACE (65-8 BCE). Poemata omnia . Edited by Franciscus Asulanus. Venice: heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, November 1519. “The most correct of the Aldine editions of Horace” (Renouard). This third Aldine edition was edited by Franciscus Asulanus, whose corrected text was then used for many later editions. The Roman poet Horace was much loved and imitated in the Renaissance for his elegance, wit, and metrical virtuosity. Ahmanson-Murphy 184; Clemons and Fletcher 72; Renouard Alde 88:10. Octavo (151 x 90mm). (Title-page in facsimile, final leaf with device supplied from another Aldine work). 19th-century blue crushed morocco gilt. Provenance : erased marginalia faintly visible throughout – Giovanni Marchetti (1817-1876; armorial bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s, 27 November 1896, lot 1391).
HORACE (65-8 BCE). Poemata omnia . Edited by Franciscus Asulanus. Venice: heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, November 1519. “The most correct of the Aldine editions of Horace” (Renouard). This third Aldine edition was edited by Franciscus Asulanus, whose corrected text was then used for many later editions. The Roman poet Horace was much loved and imitated in the Renaissance for his elegance, wit, and metrical virtuosity. Ahmanson-Murphy 184; Clemons and Fletcher 72; Renouard Alde 88:10. Octavo (151 x 90mm). (Title-page in facsimile, final leaf with device supplied from another Aldine work). 19th-century blue crushed morocco gilt. Provenance : erased marginalia faintly visible throughout – Giovanni Marchetti (1817-1876; armorial bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s, 27 November 1896, lot 1391).
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