La vita et Metamorfoseo d'Ovidio
By: figurato & abbreuiato in forma d'epigrammi da m. Gabriello Symeoni ; con altre stanze sopra gl'effetti della luna, il ritratto d'vna fontana d'Ouernia, et vn' apologia generale nella fine del libro
Contributors: Simeoni, Gabriele, 1509-1575; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561
Publisher: Per Giouanni di Tornes ...
Published: 1559
Place of publication: A Lione
Language: ita
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Illustrations
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: T.p. vignette incorporates port. of Simeoni; see Mortimer. Each page of the Metamorphoses consists of a brief caption in prose, followed by a woodcut ill. and an 8-line verse paraphrase of Ovid, the whole surrounded by one of a number of grotesque and ornamental borders. The ill. are by Bernard Salomon. Headpieces, initials.

Ovid's Latin text, much abbreviated, given on p. 201-245.

Includes index.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th-cent., 405