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Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Some pencil annotation to pages. Foxing to top edge. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 101 pages. 3 Kg.

Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Some pencil annotation to pages. Foxing to top edge. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 101 pages. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. SECOND ALDINE EDITION. A lovely, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum (binding lightly soiled, remains of ties, small splits on spine). Very fresh and bright, with generous margins and only some very minor ink marks or the occasional blemish. Title lightly soiled and with early note deleted in ink. An early reader (possibly two) has made comments, offered alternate readings, and supplied the occasional line in the longer poems Cat. 61. (Epithalamium), Cat. 63 (Attis), Cat. 64 (the epyllion, printed here under the title "Argonautica"), and 68A. ("Quod mihi fortuna."); as well as in a few of the shorter poems. The important second Aldine edition of the poems of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, co-edited by Girolamo Avanzi (fl. 1500.) and Aldus. The first Aldine Catullus, one of the first of the "libri portatiles", the handy ("forma enchiridii") octavo-sized format that Aldus popularized, appeared in 1502. In his epistle to the reader, Aldus informs us that Avanzi has made further improvements upon the text for this edition. "Avantius was younger by a generation than all of his Catullan predecessors, and a more careful textual critic than any-with the obvious exception of Poliziano. He was to become a professional editor of Latin poetry, principally for the Venetian printers Johannes Tacuinus and Aldo Manuzio, preparing, inter alia, editions of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius (Tacuino, 1500), Lucretius (Aldine, 1500), and the first and second Aldine editions of Catullus (1502; 1515). "Because Avanzi was more systematic, thorough, and knowledgeable than his predecessors -and because he had the whole printed tradition to work with- he was able to make an enormous contribution to the text of Catullus in the 'Emendationes'. In addition to a large number of emendations, he made dozens of corrections both to the printed tradition as a whole and to the recent base text of Calfurnio and Partenio. He also made some improvements in the 'dispositio carminum', although this was becoming increasingly difficult, since the easy corrections had already been made." (Gaisser, Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. p.52 ff. ) "Avantius is principally interested in textual and metrical problems and only occasionally in interpretation. His emendations are based on the collation of his texts, the work of other scholars, and his own observations of Catullus' stylistic and metrical practice. He depends much less on parallels from other Latin and Greek authors, which he cites sparingly and selectively. "The 'Emendationes' were [first] published without a text of Catullus, but the second edition, published in 1500, appeared in a volume that included not only Catullus but also Tibullus and Propertius. [.] Avantius used this edition as the basis for his important first Aldine edition of Catullus (1502), and its influence is apparent in his second Aldine (1515)." (Gaisser, 'Catullus' in 'Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum' Vol. VII) Catullus: "Catullus' name and poetry are traditionally associated with the 'neoteric revolution'; indeed, they are the most important document of it. It is a revolution in literary taste but also a revolution in ethics. While at a time of acute crisis for the Republic the old moral and political values of the 'civitas' are crumbling, personal 'otium' becomes the attractive alternative to communal life, the space in which to devote oneself to culture, poetry, friendship, and love. The small universe of the individual, with its joys and dramas, is identified with the very horizon of existence, and literary activity no longer turns towards epic and tragedy, the genres that speak for the state and its values, but rather toward lyric, towards personal poetry, which is introverted and suitable for embracing and expressing the small events of private life." "[Catullus' poetry] achieved a vast and immediate success among cultivated Latin readers. In particular, it exercised a profound influence upon the Augustan poets (with the exception of Horace). Not only the elegists, who regard Catullus as one of their most important literary ancestors, but also the Vergil of the 'Eclogues' and the Dido episode slip irresistibly into the language of Catullus when they combine erotic passion with refined diction and baroque style." Propertius: "Propertius has the reputation of being a difficult, sometimes obscure poet. In contrast to the crystalline naturalness of Tibullus, his style is characterized by concentration, density of metaphor, and constant experimentation with new expressive possibilities. The Callimachean inheritance, which is evident in his mythological learning and sophisticated literary consciousness, also manifests itself in the careful pursuit of unusual, often audacious 'iuncturae' and of a complex syntactic structure, which is strained and often forced to the point of obscurity. [.] This is the most typical feature of Propertius' style: abrupt beginning, proceeding by unpredictable movements, by leaps, through images and concepts, not making connections explicit but following a hidden, inner logic. In this form of expression, which mingles irony and pathos, in its harsh elegance, and also in the complexity of the psychological attitudes it portrays, lie the principal reasons for the fascination that Propertius' poetry has exercised upon the taste of modern readers." Tibullus: "[Tibullus'] style reveals at every point, and with extraordinary regularity, the effort made towards a writing of extreme care, in which simplicity itself is the laborious result of an artistic choice, or rather the visible sign of a trust in words and their expressive force, without the need for distortions or pathetic intensifications of the discourse. The limpidity of expression seems to be the product of immediacy; the effort of composition remains hidden beneath the smooth surface of an apparently spontaneous writing. [.] The rhythm has a certain light, singable quality, a regular cadence, which often approaches t.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. [Bound with]: Statius, Publius Papinius (b. ca. 45-50 ? d. ca. 96) Statii Achilleida cum comm. Ioannis Britannici Brescia: per Iacobum Brtitannicum, 21 May 1485 Folio: 29 x 19.6 cm. Two works bound as one. I. [158] lvs. (the last leaf blank). Collation: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8, t-x6. II. [28] lvs. (the first leaf blank). Collation: A4, a-d6. Bound in attractive 18th c. blonde calf, spine richly gilt with floral tools and morocco label; board edges also gilt (light wear, corners bumped). Fine, crisp copies with minor blemishes as follows: I. Title lightly soiled, marginal dampstain to the first three lvs., leaf l1, leaf g6, and a few lvs. in gathering h; 4 lvs. in gathering e and bifolium f1/8 lightly browned (f1/8 with light ink stain). II. Light dampstain blank margin. Both books with woodcut initials. First work with Octavian Scotus? printer?s device on the final leaf. From the library of the French poet and journalist Frédéric Plessis (1851-1942), with his label ?ex-libris Fridericus Plessis? on the front fly-leaf. This volume comprises two incunabula. The first is the 1491 edition of the Roman elegiac poets, Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus, with the commentaries of (respectively) Antonio Partenio (1456-1506), Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1453-1505) and Berardino Cillenio (b. ca. 1450) of Verona. The second is the 1485 Brescia edition of Statius?s ?Achilleid?, an unfinished epic poem on the life of Achilles, with the commentary of the humanist Giovanni Britannico (fl. 1470-1518). Catullus and Parthenius: The commentary of Parthenius on Catullus is particularly important. His work was ?not only the first but also the most important of the fifteenth-century commentaries on Catullus. He made significant improvements to the text and explained Catullan style and usage with parallels from a wide range of ancient authors, both Greek and Latin, including among others, Cicero, Vergil, Martial, Pliny Ovid, Lucretius, Donatus, Homer, and Sappho. He was also interested in interpreting the poems and successfully emended and explained several that had previously seemed pointless. The commentary was hailed in verse by several of Parthenius? fellow citizens and other contemporaries, including Iacobus Iuliarius and Hieronymus Bononius.? (Gaiser) Statius? Interrupted Epic: ?Any judgment upon [the ?Achilleid?] is difficult, since the text we have (interrupted by the author's death) deals only with episodes of the young Achilles on Scyros. The plan of narrating all of Achilles' life (1.4 ff.) suggests large literary ambitions. Statius, had he been able to continue, would have found himself facing Homer. And beginning with its title the work seems, even more than Statius? ?Thebaid?, to be heading towards a perilous confrontation with the ghost of its father Virgil.?(Conte).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. TWO SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of both works and some underscoring in the Tibullus. The three most famous Roman elegiac poets together with the great Roman satirist.