Title: Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio della Guerra Troiana Tradiotti per Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino
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> Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio della Guerra Troiana Tradiotti per Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino: Il quale u’ha aggiunto l’ordine, che s’ha da tener nella Concatenation dell’historie, &amp; le Vite di tutti quelli historici antichi Greci, de’ quali è formata la sua Collana. Et questo, secondo l’ordine da lui posto, è il primo Anello d’essa Collana historica.</span></p> 

<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;"><br /></span></p><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;"> 4to. pp. [32], 180. 19th-century quarter vellum and beige paper-covered boards, giltstamped green leather spine label, pink ribbon placemarker. Shelfmark on top edge and title on the bottom edge in ink, with the shelflabel of Domenico Olivieri di Parma on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. One inked note on front free endpaper.</span></p><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;"><br /></span></p><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;">First Italian edition of Tuscan historian, philologist, and poet Porcacchi’s translations of Dictys Cretensis’ and Dares Phrygius’ works on the Trojan War, with supplementary materials. The text starts with a dedication from Porcacchi to Silvio Torelli; a detailed index; and introductory material on the importance of historical study, past Greek historians, and a publication history, before moving on to Cretensis’ Ditte candiotto  della Guerra Troiana; a letter from Cornelio Nepote to Crispo Sallustio on Phrygius’ work; Phrygius’ Historia di Darete Frigio della ruina di Troia; three of Libanius’ declamationes discussing Helen of Troy, Medea, and Andromache; and the Vite di tutti gl’historici antichi greci, with biographies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, and others. The work is beautifully printed in single columns with shouldernotes using italic and roman type; Giolito has added numerous head- and tailpieces plus an array of lovely, variously sized historiated initials, with his sizable printer’s device appearing on the title page.</span></p><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;"><br /></span></p><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;">See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, D437; S. Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito, Rome, [1897], II, pp. 295-297; EDIT16 CNCE 17123; J. G. T. Graesse, Trésor de livres rares et précieux, Dresden, II, p. 389; F.L.A. Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, Leipzig, II, p. 332.
</span></p><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;"><br /></span></p><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;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991007282969707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>