Lactantius, Opera, Venice, 1502, modern calf

Lactantius

Habes in hoc volumine lector optime divina Lactantii Firmiani opera perquam accurate castigata [edited by Giovan Pierio Valeriano Bolzani]. (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 3 January and 9 January 1502)

folio (314 x 210mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, A1 with heading and woodcut printed in red, other woodcut initials, modern red calf tooled in period style, occasional light staining

The editor, Pierio Valeriano, also worked as a corrector for Aldus Manutius. He was the nephew of the monk Urbano Bolzanio, a teacher of Greek and a friend of Aldus.

LITERATURE:

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PROVENANCE:

"Fr. Jo. Baptista Melonarius", inscription at foot of title-page