La prima [-seconda] parte delle vite di Plutarcho di greco in latino & di latino in volgare tradotte. Nouamente da molti errori corrette & con le sue historie ristampate.

Formato: in ottavo

2 volumes, 8vo (155x102 mm). 528; 549 [i.e. 551], [1] leaves. Leaf rrr8 is a blank. Numerous half-page woodcuts in the text, titles within historiated woodcut borders, and the printer's device at the end of the volumes. Some tiny wormholes in the title and the first leaves of the second volume, some light browning.

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PLUTARCHUS (ca. 46-120). Alcuni opusculetti de le cose morali del divino Plutarco. In questa nostra lingua tradotti. Venezia, Girolamo Giglio, 1559.

Two parts in one volume, 8vo (151x101 mm). 164, [4] leaves (lacking leaf x8 a blank); 289, [3] leaves. With the printer's device on the title-page. Some light dampstains, a few tiny wormholes, title-page very lightly soiled. Uniformly bound in 19th-century half vellum, decorated panels, spine with three raised bands, gilt ornaments and lettering, pink endpapers, on the title page of the third volume entry of ownership of Francesco Venanzi, an attractive set.

Illustrated italian translation of Plutrach's Lives in the version of Battista Alessandro Jaconello (first published in 1482) for the first part, and of Giulio Bordone for the second part. It is a reprint of the 1529 Bindoni edition, which in turn was first published by Zoppino in 1525. The selections from Plutarch's Moralia were translated by Antonio Massa and Giovanni Tarcagnota. This version was first published by Tramezzino in 1543 and reprinted in 1548. These older translations were superseded by those of Lodovico Domenichi in 1555 (Vite) and 1560 (Opuscoli) (cf. V. Costa, Sulle prime traduzioni italiane a stampa delle opera di Plutarco, secc. XV-XVI, in: “Volgarizzare e tradurre dall'Umanesimo all'Età contemporanea. Atti della Giornata di Studi, 7 dicembre 2011, Università di Roma La Sapienza”, M. Accame, ed., Rome, 2013, pp. 87-88). 

(I:) Edit 16, CNCE 23131; Universal STC, no. 849983; M. Sander, Le livre à figures italiens depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, (New York, 1941), no. 5792; S.F.W. Hoffmann, Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litteratur der Griechen, (Leipzig, 1845), III, p. 218. (II:) Edit 16 CNCE 25875; Universal STC, no. 849998; S.F.W. Hoffmann, op. cit., III, p. 222.

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