In librum Aristotelis de arte Poëtica … — Basel 1555

In librum Aristotelis de arte Poëtica, explicationes. Qui ab eodem ex manuscriptis libris, multis in locis emendatus fuit, ut iam difficillimus, ac obscurißimus liber a nullo ante declaratus, facile ab omnibus poßit intelligi. 

[Acc.:] Paraphrasis in librum Horatii, qui vulgo De arte poetica ad Pisones inscribitur. Eiusdem explicationes De satyra, De epigrammatae … Quae omnia ad poeticam spectaret, desiderari posset. Nam in ijs scribendis Aristotelis methodum servavit: & ex ipsius libello de Arte poetica principia sumpsit omnium suarum explicationum. — Basileae, per Ioannem Hervagium Iuniorem, Anno M. D. LV.

Basel, Hervagen, 1555

Folio (320 x 210 mm). α⁶ a-z⁶ A⁴ B⁶ aa-dd⁶ ee⁴: (6) leaves, 281, (1) pp. (7) leaves, 48 pp., (3) leaves. Watermargins. Tear in lower blank margin of e3. A few marginal annotations in a contemporary Italian hand. 18th century Italian boards.

„One of the most significant texts of the Renaissance.“ (M. Sgarbi, F. Robortello. Architectural Genius of the Humanities. NY/London 2020, p. 20)

„In 1548, he submitted to the press the first commentary ever printed on Aristotle’s Poetics, which immediately became a point of departure for subsequent scholarship on the topic.“ (Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy)