P. Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Fabricius Camers, R. Volaterranus, De vrbe Roma scribentes. Flauius, De locis ac ciuitatibus Italiae, deq. eius appellationibus priscis ac nouis
Contributors: Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497; Varano, Fabrizio; Maffei, Raffaele, 1455-1522; Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463; Pio, Giovanni Battista, -1540?; Calcagnini, Celio, 1479-1541
Publisher: Ex aedibus Hieronymi de Benedictis
Published: 1520
Place of publication: Bononiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Guidebooks; Antiquities
Other titles: P. Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Fabricius Camers, R. Volaterranus De urbe Roma scribentes; De locis ac civitatibus Italiae, deque eius appellationibus priscis ac novis; De urbe Roma
Notes: AA1r, title. AA1v-AA2v, dedication in prose by the editor, Io. Bapt. Pius, and in verse by Julius Caesar Pius. AA3r-BB4r, Fabricii Varrani episcopi Camertis De vrbe Roma collectanea. BB4v-DD4r, Pomponius Laetus De vetustate vrbis; ex Publio Victore et Fabio. DD4v-FF4v, Roma, regiones antiquae vrbis. GG1r-II1r, Descriptio vrbis Romae per R. Volaterranvm (i.e., Raffaele Maffei). II1v-kk4r, Ex Flauio (perhaps Biondo Flavio, whose Italia illustrata appeared in 1474). kk4r, colophon.

Signatures: AA-kk⁴.

Woodcut initial, AA3r. Guide letters retained, AA1v, BB4v, GG1r, II1v.

Schudt, L. Guide di Roma, 805

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3

Library's copy has numerous marginal annotatations in brown ink listing topics discussed in adjacent text. Front free endpaper has annotation in blue ink: Le postille suss. sono autografe di Celio Calcagnini. This is followed by a 2nd annotation in brown ink: N.B. quest'annotazione è di pugno del dr. bibliotecario monsig. d. Giuseppe Antonelli di Ferrara da cui proviene questo interessante e raro libretto. Bologna aprile 1813. M.G. Verso of last leaf has inscription in brown ink that begins: 1567 ...

Binding: marbled paper over pasteboard, quarter calf. Spine tooled in gold with title: Victor, and date: 1528.