Carmina novem illustrium feminarum … — Antwerp 1568

Carmina novem illustrium feminarum, Sapphus, Myrtidis, Praxillae, Erinnae, Corinnae, Nossidis, Myro, Telesillae, Anytae.

Et lyricorum Alcmanis, Ibyci, Stesichori, Anacreontis, Alcaei, Simonides, Bacchylidis. 

Elegiae Tyrtaei, & Mimnermi.

Bucolica Bionis & Moschi. Latino versu a Laurentio Gambara expressa.

Cleanthis, Moschionis, aliorumque fragmenta nunc primum edita.

Ex bibliotheca Fulvii Ursini Romani. — Antverpiae, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, M CIↃ. IƆ. LXVIII. [Antwerpen, Plantin, 1568].

 

Editio princeps

8vo (167 x 104 mm). *⁶ A-Y⁸ Z² a,b⁸: (6) ff., 387 pp. 18th century red morocco, spine gilt; a few skilfull restaurations to the binding. Paper restoration to the upper margin of the title-page and to the blank margin of the second leaf (Orsini’s dedication to Allessandro Farnese). Apart from that a nice and fresh copy. Printed in Greek & Latin. – Hoffmann III 234; Adams P 1802 (Poetae).

See Anne Debrosse, Èditer et publier des poétesses grecques à la renaissance. Les choix éditoriaux de Fulvio Orsini et Christope Plantin (1568), in: Cuny, Diane (Ed.), Les femmes illustres de l’Antiquité grecque au miroir des modernes (XIVe-XVIe siècle) ; avec un hommage à Christophe Plantin. Paris 2020, pp. 55-72.