Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio

8vo (156 x 96mm.), text in italics, with blank leaf q7, later vellum, lacking q8 with device only, light damp-staining towards end

"ex. lib. An. Gri. [?]", early inscription on title-page; [probably William George, headmaster of Eton, whose library was bought by]; John Spencer, first earl Spencer (1734-1783), armorial bookplate (and presumably replaced by a complete copy by his son and sold as a duplicate); William O'Brien, bequest booklabel dated 1899; library stamp on a2 (otherwise blank)

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 91; Censimento 16 CNCE 3381; Renouard 49/2; Texas 81; UCLA 89

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Augurelli was a humanist scholar and a friend of both Bernardo and Pietro Bembo (whose verses Gli Asolani Aldus had printed just a month earlier) and of Marsilio Ficino. Most of the poems in this collection are addressed to friends or notable public figures, including Aldus himself. Some of them had previously appeared in the 1491 Verona edition of Augurelli's verse.