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Published by Apud Joannem Hervagium, Napoli, 1559
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Giulio Cesare di Daniele Corradi, Roma, ROMA, Italy
p.perg. ottocentesca con tass. Piccolo risarcimento alla base del frontespizio, strappo con piccole mancanze alla prima carta, per il resto ottimo stato generale di conservazione XIV + 3096 c.c. + (12) p. 300x200 mm.
Published by Johannes Hervagius September 1576, Basel, 1576
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio (340 x 220mm). Woodcut printer s device of Hervagius on title and final verso. Double columns, numbered to 1498; some worming most severe last quarter of text block, toned throughout. Full German pigskin of the period, spine with early ms. title and later morocco label stamped in gilt, blind-stamped with front central panel of Justice, standing in an archway, holding a long sword and scales; below is the legend: IUSTICIE QVIS QVIS PICTVRAM LVMINE CERNIS (two rubbings of this image loose in text block), Justice is surrounded by emblems of the Evangelist writers, then Christological scenes, the Crucifixion and Annunciation, on rear the emblem of Lucrecia, with a fur coat, driving dagger in heart, and the legend CASTATULIT MAGMA FORMA LUCRETIA LAUDEM. Preliminary leaves inscribed in 17th century hand in Latin and title similarly inscribed with ownership inscriptions to title. Nizzoli s chief work, a Latin glossary of words matched with Ciceronian equivalents Mario Nizzoli (1498-1576), or Marius Nizolius as he was known in Latin, was a professor at the University of Parma and one of the staunchest defenders of a strict Ciceronian imitation. His lexicon of Latin was based exclusively on the writings of Cicero and is regarded as ". one of the best known dictionaries from the 16th well into the 18th century (an edition was printed in England as late as in 1820). Leibniz wrote that this Lexicon would last as long as Cicero. The historian Arnold Toynbee has remarked that he was brought up on Nizolius in Latin school." (from "The Observationes in M. T. Ciceronem of Marius Nizolius" by Quirinus Breen /Studies in the Renaissance, Vol. 1, 1954 (1954), pp. 49-58). Nizzoli stood for the strictest kind of verbal imitation of Cicero an arranged his dictionary for the use of youth who aspired to attain the perfect style. This copy survives in good form in a wonderful period German binding of which others of the same style have been located.
Published by Per Robertum Winter, Anno Domini M.D.XLIIII [1554], Basel, 1554
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio (310 x 205mm). [28], 1880 double columns in [952pp]. Woodcut printer s device of Winter (Minerva holding head of Medusa and spear, with owl at her feet) to title and final verso. Full period German pigskin, stamped in blind, lacking clasps; lightly toned, some underlining, otherwise crisp and clean, binding somewhat rubbed and dated in ink on front cover "DICTIONARIVM MDXLIIII [1544]." 17th-century ownership inscription to title "Samuel M[.] Elbing." Elbing was a city in Royal Prussia. Early ink library stamp to title (effaced). At once in the collection of a religious fraternity with their emblem gilt-stamped to front cover "Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum habitare fratres in unum"(Latin, from Psalm 133) and dated 1604. Nizzoli s Latin dictionary of 1544, published in response to Estienne s edition. A rare early edition of this great monument of Renaissance humanist scholarship first published in 1535. Mario Nizzoli, or Marius Nizolius as he was known in Latin, was a professor at the University of Parma and an expert Latin lexicographer. In 1520, he published his chief work, the Thesaurus Ciceronianus, which had first appeared as Observationes in Ciceronem in 1535, documenting approximately 20,000 words. Nizzoli dared to publish an augmented version of Robert Estienne s Linguae latinae thesaurus in Venice in 1550-51 and inspection of this edition in press enraged Robert, who recognized some of the added words as ones which he carefully identified as to be omitted from his dictionary and counterfeit or post-classical. The work also includes a biographical note to Italian cardinal Giovanni Francesco Gambara (1533-1587).