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APPARENTLY NO COPY IN US LIBRARIES4to (202x150 mm). [32] leaves. Collation: a-h4. Woodcut decorated initials on black ground. Title page in roman and gothic types. Text in roman type. Colophon on l. h4r. Later orange cardboards, inked title on spine. Bookplate with the manuscript initials "V.S." on the front pastedown. Occasional light foxing and staining. A very good copy.
Extremely rare first edition of this school manual on rhetorics written by Parrasio during his teaching years in Vicenza. Parrasio arrived in Vicenza towards the end of 1507 together with his Calabrian pupil Giovanni Antonio Cesario, who signes the address to the reader in verse printed on the title page of the present edition. In January Parrasio delivered an oration Ad municipium Vicentinum and began his courses that he held until the following year. In May 1509 he was in Abano to cure the podagra he was suffering from. In Vicenza, beside the present edition, he also published two more school books in collaboration with the… Leer más
