Sebastiani Corradi Commentarius
Subtitle: in quo M. T. Ciceronis de claris oratoribus liber, qui dicitur Brutus, & loci pene innumerabiles quum aliorum scriptorum, tum Ciceronis ipsius explicantur
Publisher: Ex officina Laurentii Torrentini Ducalis typographi
Published: 1552
Place of publication: Florentiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 457
Description: First edition of the most exhaustive and most important Renaissance commentary on Cicero's treatise on eminent orators, the Brutus.  The author, Sebastiano Corrado, had been a student of Gianbattista Egnazio.  Volume includes the text of the Brutus as well.
Notes: Includes index.

Colophon: Ne quis hunc Seb. Corradi Commentarium in Cicer. Brutum intra annos decem imprimat aut alibi impressum diuendat, pre̜cterquam cui hoc a Laur. Torrentino permissum est, Iulii III, Pont. Max. Caroli V. Imper. Henri II. Gallorum regis, Cosmi Medicis Florent. Ducis II. Priuilegio cautum est, prout in singulis eorundem diplomatibus graui multa samcitum est.

Woodut initials.

"Errata sic corrigito" verso of final leaf of text.

Adams lists a second state with a woodcut title border.

Printer's mark on t.-p.

Pages 65, 68, and 72 misnumbered 68, 65, and 90.

Signatures: *⁶, a-z⁶, A-S⁶, T⁴, V⁶ (V6 blank, wanting)

Includes the text of the Brutus.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 180

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, C-2682, C-2683

Schweiger, F.L.A. Handbuch der classischen bibliographie, 121

Moreni, D. Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino, page 194, no. IV

EDIT 16, CNCE 13511