Persio
By: tradotto in verso sciolto e diachiarto da Francesco Stelluti accad. Linceo da Fabriano. ...
Contributors: Stelluti, Francesco, 1577-1653, editor, translator; Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638, engraver; Mascardi, Giacomo, active 1605-1634, printer; Burndy Library
Published: 1630
Language: ita
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Portraits; Early works to 1800; Latin Verse satire; Translations into Italian; Ancient Philosophy
Work titles: Works
Notes: Historiated title page, engraved by Mathaeus Greuter.

Engraved illustrations include, among others, 12 figures depicting the anatomy of the bee (page 52), and one of the weevil (page 127), which are considered to be "the first illustrations prepared with a microscope that were set forth in a printed book," according to Charles Singer, in his History of biology (New York, 1950), page 148.

An engraved portrait of Persius appears on page [10] (1st group).

Initials; tail-pieces.

Errata on page 20 (3rd group).

Final leaf blank.

Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁴ ²2[dagger]⁴ A-2G⁴.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1348

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration 3988

Latin text and Italian translation of the Satires on facing pages, with commentary below.

SCDIRB copy 39088002902351 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has a later full vellum binding over paper boards, with title printed on spine. The final (blank) leaf was present at time of recataloging (May 2018).