Angeli Politiani et Aliorum virorum illust Epistolae cum praefatione in Suet. expositionem
by POLIZIANO (Angelo):
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Amstelodami, pud Joan. Janssonium, 1644. 12mo, 123 x 68 mms., pp. [xxiv, including engraved title-page], 610, later calf, rebacked, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; old end-papers from an incubabulum, armorial bookplate of Joseph Pickford, Junr. on front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph of William [?Dance] on lower margin of title-page, inscription "Joh. Pickford Junr/ January 1785" on the top margin of the recto of the first printed leaf. "Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano, anglicized as Politian; Latin: Politianus), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance" (Wikipedia). His birth city, Montepulciano, will be well known to wine drinkers. The preface or introduction is a short biography of the life and writings of Poliziano by Gerardus Vossius (1577 - 1649), the Dutch scholar and theologian. Poliziano began preparing his correspondence for publication before he died, and the first edition of the correspondence was prepared and published by Aldus Manutius in 1498.
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- Title
- Angeli Politiani et Aliorum virorum illust Epistolae cum praefatione in Suet. expositionem
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- POLIZIANO (Angelo):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Amstelodami, pud Joan. Janssonium, 1644
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- Biography letters literature
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