Iuvenilium studiorum laurentii legati specimina [bound with:] Λαμπροτάτοι, και οι υπερτάτοι Οβίδιοι οι Ωρεολεύκοι Φελσινεών των ιατροσοφιών Συνέδριοι πρεσβύτεροι [bound with:] Musei poetriarum primitiae

Three works in one volume, 4to (180x130 mm). Later marbled wrappers. Paper loss on the lower margin of the front flyleaf. Minimal paper lacks to the outer margin of the first title page, not affecting the text. Faded stamp on title page on the first title page. Some foxing throughout and marginal staining at the opening of the volume, but overall a good, genuine copy.

The volume includes a collection of juvenile poems by Lorenzo Legati as well as an anthology of Roman poetresses collected and edited by him.

I. Iuvenili studiorum laurentii legati specimina: [12] pp. Collation: [π]⁶. Head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Woodcut coat of arms and personification of the city of Bologna. Greek part followed by Latin part. It contains a longer poem in Greek and Latin dedicated to the Council of the doctors and philosophers of Bologna and three short poems at the end (D. Io. Aloysii Piccinardi, In Chrysomeleida L. Legati. Eiusdem In Agriomeleida. Eiusdem in utranque). Second edition, the first was printed by Benacci in 1667.

II. Λαμπροτάτοι, και οι υπερτάτοι Οβίδιοι οι Ωρεολεύκοι Φελσινεών των ιατροσοφιών Συνέδριοι πρεσβύτεροι Λαυρεντίου Λεγάτου του Κρεμώνου εν τεί του Αγγέλου Σιμμάχου Ζακίνθεος Ιατροσόφεικες Δαφνιφόρα, επί του Παταβίου. Ωδή εξ εις του κλυτού Πομπηίου Λουχέτου του Κρήτου φιλού, και προς τους Βονονίες θεσμογνώμονες / Ad Illustrissimum, et Excellentissimum D. Ovidium Montalbanum I.C. & Bononien. Phil. & Med. Collegiorum Decanum Laurentij Legati Crem. P. & M.D. In Patavina Nob. D. Angeli Sumac Zacynthij Laurea Philosophicomedica. Ode Intuitu Cl. D. Pompei Lucchetti Cretensis Iuris P. apud Bonon. 12 pp. Collation: A⁶. Greek text followed by Latin translation. Elaborated woodcut head-piece of an hunt scene. Ovidio Montalbani (1804–1896), to whom the latin version of the poem is dedicated, was a distinguished Italian professor, physician, and politician. His profound dedication to science and research quickly led him to establish himself in the Bolognese academic community, where he obtained a university chair and served for many years as a respected lecturer and clinician. Throughout his medical career, he distinguished himself for his dedication to the modernization of healthcare practices, preventive medicine, and university teaching, publishing several medical and scientific contributions and memoirs. Ovidio Montalbani and Lorenzo Legati were two prominent figures in the cultural and scientific landscape of seventeenth-century Bologna, united by a deep respect and a close professional collaboration. Both involved in the management of the city's most important encyclopedic collections - Montalban as custodian of the Ulisse Aldrovandi Museum and Legati as curator of the renowned Cospiano Museum - the two scholars conducted joint research in the fields of antiquity and Egyptology, as evidenced by their joint study of a hieroglyphic slab discovered in Bologna in 1664. The value of Montalbani's knowledge in the fields of medicine, botany, and mineralogy was also widely recognized by Legati himself, who cited him several times as an authoritative scientific reference in the monumental catalogue dedicated to the Cospiano Museum.

III. Musei poetriarum Laurentii Legati primitiae. 57, [1] pp. Collation: A-F⁴ G⁵. Woodcut coat of arms (two rearing unicorns, horizontal bands and ornamental motifs topped by an helmet) of Montalbani, to whom the work is dedicated. Printed marginalia. Many wooduct illustrations of allegories and coins. Legati turned his scholarly attention in this treatise to three notable classical and late-antique poetesses: the Byzantine Empress Aelia Eudocia, known for her heroic and religious epic poetry; Proba (historically conflated in early-modern scholarship with Valeria Falconia), celebrated for her ingenious Cento, a narrative Christian poem reassembling lines of Virgil to tell biblical stories; and Sulpicia Caluria, the late Roman satirist. Legati offers their surviving verses, moreover he brought an antiquarian's precision to the text: he accompanies each one with extensive Latin commentary, philological analysis, and historical notes that examine their metric structures, stylistic and biographical elements. Poetriarum primitiae reflects the broader 17^th-century humanist enthusiasm for recovering forgotten classical voices, particularly the rare surviving heritage of historical women writers. As a result, the work became a fascinating primary testament to early-modern classical reception and feminist bibliographical history.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\VEAE\001631; IT\ICCU\UBOE\001739; Cicognara, II, 3252; S. Mazzetti, Repertorio di tutti i Professori della Università e dell'Istituto delle scienze di Bologna, Bologna, 1847; Archivio biografico italiano, T. Nappo, ed. Munich, 1987-1996.

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