Narcissus ad fontem; : videlicet homo sub illius specie adumbratus, in insitae miseriae speculo ad unguem sese explorans. Opus per singulos personarum status digestum; moralium documentorum sublimitate, conceptuum praedicabilium delectu, eruditionum ubertate quàm inclytissimum; in duas partes divisum

Title Variants

Uniform: Narciso al fonte

By

Falcone, Ippolito, 1623-1699

Voltolini, Lodovico.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Coloniae Allobrogum [Geneva], Sumptibus fratrum de Tournes, M. DCC. XLIII. [1743]

Edition

Editio nova.

Notes

Translation, by Lodovico Voltolini, of: Narciso al fonte, first printed in Palermo, 1665-1668.

Part 2 includes references to Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vesupucci's voyages to the Americas on page 182, Ferdiand Magellan's circumnavigation of the world on page 185, exploration of Arctic and Anarctic on page 186, and Spanish colonies in Mexico with the rare botanicals found there on pages 196-197.

Pagination: volume 1: [16], 236 pages; volume 2: [6], 165, 155-240, [2] pages.

Signatures: volume 1: pi1 (pi1 recto blank) A⁴ (-A4) (A1 verso blank) b⁴ ²A B-2F⁴ 2G²; volume 2: a⁴ (-a4) (a1 verso blank) A-2G⁴ (2G4 blank)

Includes index.

Includes added engraved title page depicting Narcissus staring into a pool of water reading: Narcissus ad fontem.

Title page printed in red and black; engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

See: Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 13689584.

Subjects

1451-1512 , -1521 , America , Antarctica , Arctic regions , Botany , Botany, Medical , Columbus, Christopher , Conduct of life , Description and travel , Discovery and exploration , Imprint 1743 , Italian , Magalhães, Fernão de, , Mexico , Moral education , Vespucci, Amerigo,

Language

Latin

Identifiers

OCLC: 1231558809