Persio

Title Variants

Uniform: Works

By

Persius, , author

Stelluti, Francesco, 1577-1653 , editor, translator
Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638 , engraver
Mascardi, Giacomo, active 1605-1634 , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

In Roma, Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, MDCXXX [1630]

Notes

Historiated title page, engraved by Mathaeus Greuter.

Engraved illustrations include, among others, 12 figures depicting the anatomy of the bee (page 52), and one of the weevil (page 127), which are considered to be "the first illustrations prepared with a microscope that were set forth in a printed book," according to Charles Singer, in his History of biology (New York, 1950), page 148.

An engraved portrait of Persius appears on page [10] (1st group).

Initials; tail-pieces.

Errata on page 20 (3rd group).

Final leaf blank.

Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁴ ²2[dagger]⁴ A-2G⁴.

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, | 1348

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration | 3988

Latin text and Italian translation of the Satires on facing pages, with commentary below.

Subjects

Early works to 1800 , Persius , Philosophy, Ancient , Portraits , Translations into Italian , Verse satire, Latin

Call Number

PA6555.A2 1630

Language

Italian

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.149110
OCLC: 263343752