Opus catoni inscriptum
By: a Bartolomaeo Crotto in elegiacum versum ; eiusdemque appendix
Contributors: Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio, 1508-1559; Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519; Rugeriis, Ugo de, active 1474-1499; Guelfo-Sitta, former owner
Publisher: Ugo or Dionisio Ruggeri?
Published: 1511
Place of publication: Reggio Emilia?
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Notes: Dedicated to Lucretia Borgia and her three-year-old son, Ercole; preliminary dedicatory letter concludes "Ferrariae. M.D.XI." (As a result, Ferrara is sometimes thought to be the place of printing.)

The six woodcut initials were used by Ugo Ruggeri in printing Crotti's Epigrams eleven years earlier; a manuscript note on the Houghton Library copy reads "Dionysii Rugerii car."

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