GIOVENALE, DECIMO GIUNIO. Iuvenal tradotto di latino in volgar lingua per Georgio Summaripa Veronese, nouamente impresso.

[Toscolano, Paganino Paganini, s.d., ma tra il 1527 e il 1533].

In 8°. Spazi per iniziali con letterine guida, minime fioriture o arrossature. Legatura in pergamena antica rimontata.

Rara edizione rara uscita dai torchi del Paganini.

Small 8vo (146×95 mm). [128] ll. Handwritten, ornamented intial letter. Italic and Roman type, printed maniculae at margin, register at colophon and imprint within double-fillet border at end. Later full-vellum binding, very light foxing with no impact on text, upper margin slighlty trimmed, but a wonderful copy. Antique ownership intials on title-page “G.F.”

Rare edition, issued by Paganino Paganini and Alessandro Paganini, and the second in vernacular Italian, after the Aldine 8vo, of the Veronese humanist Giorgio Sommariva’s translation of Juvenal’s satires. These were in fact first published in vernacular Italian in 1480 in Treviso.

For the printing date, cfr. A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), n. 82.

EDIT16, CNCE 28202.

Euro 2.200