Title: Helvetia antiqua et nova, Seu, Opus Describens I. Helvetiam, quod adjuncta & partes & Helvetiorum antiquitatem, originem, nomina, mores, antiquam linguam, Religionem, Politiam, virtutem bellicam, &c. II. Antiquiora Helvetiæ loca [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Helvetia antiqua et nova, Seu, Opus Describens I. Helvetiam, quod adjuncta &amp; partes &amp; Helvetiorum antiquitatem, originem, nomina, mores, antiquam linguam, Religionem, Politiam, virtutem bellicam, &amp;c. II. Antiquiora Helvetiæ loca, &amp;c. III. Populos Helvetiis finitimos, &amp;c Operâ &amp; Studio Joh. Bap. Plantini Lausannensis &amp; apud Castrodunenses Helv. V. D. M.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [24] (pp. [2] and [24] blank), 357, [11], [2] (blank), ff. [2] (plates, folded). Vellum. Remnants of ties, manuscript spine title. Includes tables. Woodcut ornament on title page. Woodcut head- and tailpieces; initials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, incorporating the forgery based on a fabricated epitaph by Paulus Merula, a Latin text on the tombstone of the mythical priestess of Aventicum, ‘Julia Alpinula,’ a victim of Rome’s transalpine conquests later celebrated by Byron and many others as a heroine of first-century Helvetia. In 1699, however, Jean Baptist Plantin admitted that he may not have viewed and transcribed all the insciptions he reported: see A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, pp. 12-13.
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