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ORATIO Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus

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L'Opere d'Oration poeta lirico, comenta da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine. In lingua vulgare toscana, con un bellissimo ordine, ché l vulgare,è comento del latino, ambedue le lingue dichiarandosi l'una con l'altra. Di nuovo in questa terza Edotione da molti, errori emendato. In Venetia, appresso Gio Battista Sessa e fratelli, 1581 (19,7x15 cm); in-8, red romantic calf binding (spine split along the first board and split second board), cold decoration said to the cathedral and double framing of gilded fillets on the boards, smooth spine adorned with gilded irons in the form of scrolls, gilded edges. Title adorned with a beautiful woodcut typographic mark. (3)-390 pages-(2 f., of old handwritten table), historiated lettrines. Third complete edition with important philological comments by Giovanni Fabrini. Ex-libris Joannis Petri de Villeneuve