Horace; Horatius Flaccus; Bernardino Partenio BERNARDINI PARTHENII SPILIMBERGII IN Q. HORATII FLACCI CARMINA ATQ[UE] EPODOS COMMENTARII QUIBUS POETAE ARTIFICIUM & UIA AD IMITATIONEM, ATQ[UE] AD POETICE SCRIBENDUM APERITUR Domenico Nicolino (Dominicum Nicolinum) & Aldine Press: 1584: Venice, Domenico Nicolino & Aldine Press 8vo G/ Title, [12], 8, 178 (ie 176) pp & [4] ff, 61 pp. Several pagination errors at various parts of the book, but signatures correct and all present. Errors in foliation: leaves 73-74 omitted; 129, 144, 154, 160 wrongly numbered 126, 244, 254, 161 (crude but tiny ink correction). Also Includes index. Pt. [2] with separate title page, Sermonum ... Sev ... Satyrarum ... Which has separate foliation & register. Pt. [2] has device of D. Nicolini on Title Page & last leaf, verso. Includes text as well as commentaries. Bound in very old hardcover vellum, gold tooled spine and label. Vellum quite ribbed and worn, a bit of spotting with a small worm holes here and there. The front joint is cracked but board still well attached and binding solid. Title page showing some foxing, very neatly done repairs on the verso at the top and bottom, virtually invisible on the front. Some general light foxing and spotting throughout, a few spots with very neat, tiny marginalia, numerous pencil bibliographical notes on endpapers. Corner missing on Oo2, not affecting text, but mostly quite bright and all very readable. Beautifully printed with complicated typesetting, with Greek, Latin and switching in and out of italic type. The work was published by Nicolino, "however the printing was shared by the Aldine Press, so that in some copies the name Aldus appears, while in others the name of Domenico Nicolini appears." This copy credits Nicolino. The editor and commentor was Bernardino Partenio, of Spilimbergo, a noted classicist and humanist. Horace was the leading lyric poet of ancient Rome, who flourished in the age of Augustus Caesar. Quite a scarce work, rarely appearing for sale at auction or otherwise. Noted in Brit. Mus. Cat. And H. M. Adams, Cat. Of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600. OCLC 77647447. PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE EMAIL LINK TO PURCHASE THIS TITLE.