VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.) and others. Eclogae . Florence: Filippo Giunta, 16 October 1504. 8° (161 x 93mm). With the final blank. (Title a little spotted and stained as well as stamped, library stamp on c5 r, a little spotting elsewhere.) Later 16th-century limp vellum stained green. Provenance : Giovanni Battista Funghetti (later 16th-century signature on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamp on title) -- two erased stamps on title -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.) and others. Eclogae . Florence: Filippo Giunta, 16 October 1504. 8° (161 x 93mm). With the final blank. (Title a little spotted and stained as well as stamped, library stamp on c5 r, a little spotting elsewhere.) Later 16th-century limp vellum stained green. Provenance : Giovanni Battista Funghetti (later 16th-century signature on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamp on title) -- two erased stamps on title -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). An interesting collection of Italian poetry, all in hexameters except for the eclogues of Pietro Angelio which are in hendecasyllabic meter. The number of eclogues is as follows: Virgil 10, Calphurnius 7, Nemesianus 4, Petrarch 12, Boccaccio 16, Angelio 10, Bargetus 1 and Gaurico 2 (his De sculptura also printed by Filippo Giunta in the same year).
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.) and others. Eclogae . Florence: Filippo Giunta, 16 October 1504. 8° (161 x 93mm). With the final blank. (Title a little spotted and stained as well as stamped, library stamp on c5 r, a little spotting elsewhere.) Later 16th-century limp vellum stained green. Provenance : Giovanni Battista Funghetti (later 16th-century signature on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamp on title) -- two erased stamps on title -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label).
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.) and others. Eclogae . Florence: Filippo Giunta, 16 October 1504. 8° (161 x 93mm). With the final blank. (Title a little spotted and stained as well as stamped, library stamp on c5 r, a little spotting elsewhere.) Later 16th-century limp vellum stained green. Provenance : Giovanni Battista Funghetti (later 16th-century signature on title) -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamp on title) -- two erased stamps on title -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). An interesting collection of Italian poetry, all in hexameters except for the eclogues of Pietro Angelio which are in hendecasyllabic meter. The number of eclogues is as follows: Virgil 10, Calphurnius 7, Nemesianus 4, Petrarch 12, Boccaccio 16, Angelio 10, Bargetus 1 and Gaurico 2 (his De sculptura also printed by Filippo Giunta in the same year).
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