{"product_id":"bembo-pietro-navagero-andrea-castiglione-baldassare-cotta-giovanni-flaminio-marco-antonio","title":"[BEMBO, Pietro, NAVAGERO, Andrea, CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare, COTTA, Giovanni, FLAMINIO, Marco Antonio].","description":"\u003cp\u003ePocket size edition, in a handsome, contemporary Florentine binding, reminiscent (especially the IHS monogram) of de Marinis I, 1132. This book was a gift from the renowned humanist Ercole Ciofano (d.1592?) to the young Durante de Durantis. Born in Sulmona, Ciofano was the author of a commentary on Ovid s  Metamorphoses  published in Venice by Aldus the Younger in 1575, and much praised by Marc-Antoine Muret and Paolo Manuzio. This was followed by another on Ovid s  opera omnia . Among his correspondents were Aldus the Younger, Pier Vettori and Vespasiano Gonzaga. In the early 1580s, Ciofano fell out with Aldus, vehemently accusing him of stealing his own marginalia in a copy of Cicero he lent Aldus. Ciofano s vitriolic letters about the misdeeds of the  Aesopian Jackdaw  (Aldus) have survived, one of which, for instance, begins as follows:  That ass, and fellow more ignorant than ignorance itself, Aldus Manutius, to whom I have become most inimical, has robbed me of, and printed under his own name, many explanations and emendations upon the  Offices  of Cicero  (quoted in Hartshorne,  Book Rarities , 53-56, 63-67). Another letter claims that Aldus the Elder was a Jew. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n In 1577, Ciofano was in Rome seeking work as tutor for the scions of the Farnese and Orsini families. This copy, with an ex-dono inscription from the same year, was presented by him to the Brescian Durante Duranti, probably during Duranti s educational stay in Rome. This convenient and inexpensive edition was likely a reward for Durante s scholarly commitment. It is a compendium of the best Neo-Latin poetry by Italian authors of the first half of the C16, mostly composed in a pseudo-Catullan vein. The authors include Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Andrea Navagero (1483-1529, official historian of the Serenissima), Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529), Giovanni Cotta (1480-1510) and Marco Antonio Flaminio (1497\/8-1550). Of the latter there also feature two further collections of verse (one dedicated to Alessandro Farnese, the other to the sister of the King of France, and a paraphrase of thirty psalms).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[BEMBO, Pietro, NAVAGERO, Andrea, CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare, COTTA, Giovanni, FLAMINIO, Marco Antonio].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820344549711,"sku":"L3367","price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_8446-scaled.jpg?v=1781794823","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/bembo-pietro-navagero-andrea-castiglione-baldassare-cotta-giovanni-flaminio-marco-antonio","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}