Fasti Consulares, ac triumphi acti A Romulo Rege Usque Ad Ti. Caesarem. Eiusdem In Fastos, Et Triumphos, Id Est In Universam Romanam Historiam Commentarius…
by SIGONIUS, Carolus [Carlo SIGNONIO] [c1542-1584]
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About This Item
Venice: Paulus Manutius, Aldi F, 1556., 1556. 2 Parts in 1, the chronological tables, of which the title is given, bound after the commentary. folio. ff. 16; 169 [i.e. 165; ff. 165-168 omitted in foliation], [1]. Aldine woodcut device on titles. 17th century calf, gilt back (front joint cracked, spine ends worn, covers scuffed, titles soiled & with erased ownership entries, occasional light spotting). Second and Best Aldine Edition, Greatly Enlarged, of this work by the distinguished Italian historian and antiquary, Carlo Sigonio, who was professor of Greek literature at Modena and later held the chair of eloquence at Padua. "Sigonius’s reputation chiefly rests upon his publications on Greek and Roman antiquities, which may even now be consulted with advantage: Fasti consulares (1550)…with commentary, from the regal period to Tiberius, the first work in which the history of Rome was set forth in chronological order, [is] based upon some fragments of old bronze tablets dug up in 1547 on the site of the old Forum." (Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.) The first edition of 1550 and the first Aldine edition of 1555 did not include the extensive commentary but consisted of only the chronological tables. Renouard I p. 408, no. 16. Adams S1115. BM STC Italian p. 626. Brunet V 380. Graesse VI 403.. 1st Edition.
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- Title
- Fasti Consulares, ac triumphi acti A Romulo Rege Usque Ad Ti. Caesarem. Eiusdem In Fastos, Et Triumphos, Id Est In Universam Romanam Historiam Commentarius…
- Author
- SIGONIUS, Carolus [Carlo SIGNONIO] [c1542-1584]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Venice: Paulus Manutius, Aldi F, 1556.
- Date Published
- 1556
- Keywords
- 16TH-CENTURY ITALY
- Bookseller catalogs
- 16th-Century;
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