Pigna (Johannes Baptista): Carminum Libri Quatuor. Calcagnini (Caelius): Carminum Libri III. Ariosto (Ludovico): Carminum Libri II, Venice, ex officina Erasmiana, 1553, 8vo, first edition, woodcut publisher's device on title, woodcut initials (light browning and occasional soiling of margins), old vellum. [Adams P1200; Ellinger I, 164]

细节

Pigna (Johannes Baptista): Carminum Libri Quatuor. Calcagnini (Caelius): Carminum Libri III. Ariosto (Ludovico): Carminum Libri II, Venice, ex officina Erasmiana, 1553, 8vo, first edition, woodcut publisher's device on title, woodcut initials (light browning and occasional soiling of margins), old vellum. [Adams P1200; Ellinger I, 164]

拍品专文

A collection containing the Latin poems of three eminent poets from Ferrara: Gianbattista Pigna (1530-1575), historian, and friend and protegé of Duke Alfonso II to whom the book is dedicated; Ludovico Ariosto of whose youthful Latin poems this is the Editio Princeps; and Celio Calcagnini (1479-1541) poet, philosopher and astronomer. In Cacagnini's poems, the notorious p. 191 is intact, with only the two words 'Cunni' and 'Culi' in the headlines inked out by censorship.