Title: Silii Italici De bello punico secundo XVII libri nuper diligentissime castigati
Description: <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;"> 12mo. ff. 210, [2]. Signatures: a-z⁸ A-C⁸ D⁴. Contemporary limp vellum. Macclesfield North Library plate dated 1860, manuscript no. 116 A.34. Remnants of ties, manuscript title (faded) on spine, manuscript ornaments on front board, notes on back board. Many manuscript notes and doodles on title page, marginalia.</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 Aldine edition, the first to include the anonymous 82 spurious lines following vii:144 to the epic De bello Punico secunda of Silius Italicus. Later, in 1781, these lines were joined by another 34-line interpolation (see Bib# 4102821/Fr# 293 in this collection), which the scholar poet Ugo Foscolo then showed had been copied in the fourteenth century from Petrarch’s ‘Africa’ (see Bib# 678192/Fr# 277.1). See also H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, S1134.
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