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Verlag: [Colophon]: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinum Vercellensem: Anno Salutis MCCCCCI, [1501], 1501
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Die primo Kalendas Martii. Folio., 30cm, [148] leaves, Signatures: a8, b-Z6, &8 (last leaf blank); single column, 42 lines; in Roman type; printed letter guides in initial spaces of 4 and 8 lines, covers in comtemporay off white (waste paper) boards, spine from contemporary printer's waste paper (often off the floor) with printing on the under side and finished (maybe oiled) on the surpace, with handwritten title in ink and small paper shelf label; penciled notes on fly-leaves; occasional marginalia and underlining of text; somewhat dust worn, old light damp stains to first few leaves; some small ink stains, not affecting text. Leaf eii is miss-signed dii. Imprint taken from the colophon.(cgc). Adams P1856. Kress 1:24. not in Goff. The Renaissance humanist and poet Johannes Jovianus Pontanus was born in Cerreto di Spoleto and educated in Perugia and Naples. He became tutor to the sons of Alphonso the Magnanimous (1416-1458), and subsequently occupied diplomatic and advisory positions in the Court of Naples. Alphonso established the Accademia Alphonsina as a forum for scholars to debate questions of philosophy, politics, and literature and Pontanus was a prominent teacher, eventually becoming the school's president. The Accademia was renamed in his honour, and is still operating today. Pontanus was a popular writer and had a respectable body of work published during his lifetime. This early edition includes his major philosophical and political essays, as well as two dialogues, one of which, Charon, is often found excised from collections of Pontanus' works due to its unflattering depiction of the clergy (cf. Renouara D. Pontanus also wrote treatises on astronomy, art and language, but he was most appreciated as a gifted Latin, poet who mastered the Greek epigrammatic form. The printer of this edition, Bernardino de Viano, was active in Venice from 1500-1512 and 1520-15-43, publishing in Latin and Italian under several variations of his name.