In 4to (cm 20); cartone recente; cc. (24). Grande marca tipografica al titolo. Testate e capilettera in legno. Segno di tarlo nel margine superiore interno delle prime tre carte senza perdita di testo, per il resto ottima copia.
RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE, dedicata ad Alessandro d’Este, di questo compendio dell’Arte poetica aristotelica, corredato dagli scholia dell’autore. L’ultima parte contiene A quodam viro docto Dissensio de Epistola Horatii ad Pisones. L’opera fu composta su richiesta del patrizio padovano Francesco Pinea.
«In the brief Compendium artis poeticae, Riccoboni brings together, in individual paragraphs, the statements of Aristotle relating to a given topic; he then adds paragraphs of his own, called “Scholia”, in which he gives explanations of Aristotle’s ideas on the topics… In the Dissensio de Epistola Horatii ad Pisones… Aristotle’s role is the traditional one: he is called upon to provide parallel passages for the Ars poetica. But he is also called upon to do something else. Rather than presenting a line-by-line commentary on Horace, Riccoboni chooses to reorganize Horace’s ideas according to a more orderly plan, and the sequence of topics id provided by Aristotle» (B. Weinberg, A History of Literary Critisism in the Italian Renaissance, Chicago, 1961, pp. 676-677).
C. Lohr, Latin Aristotle Commentaries, II Renaissance authors, Firenze, 1988, pp. 385-386, nr. 10. Edit16, CNCE 33098. € 450,00