Lot 939
939
(AURELIUS VICTOR). Il libro de gli huomini illustri di Gaio Plinio Cecilia, ridotto in lingua volgare. (…) I costumi di Cesare (…). Venice, D. & G.B. Guerra, 1562. (16), 375, (1) pp. - Bound after: Id. Gaio Cecilio, cognominato poi Plinio Secundo, il piu giovane (…), trad. p. P. del Rosso. Lyon, G. Rovillo, 1546. 80 pp. - 2 in 1 vol. 19th c. old style blind tooled vellum.
The second work (bound first) contains the Italian translation by Paulo del Rosso of the 'De viris illustribus', or 'Historiae Romanae breviarium', a work also ascribed to Nepos or Plinius. The first work is quite a different translation prepared by an unknown young scholar and submitted for revision to the humanist Dionisio Atanagi. - Neither in Adams. Schweiger, 1143-44.€ 200
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