[Rarebooks] FS: Early pocket edition of classic Latin poetry. Venice: 1574

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Mirandula, Octavianus. FLORES ILLUSTRIUM POETARUM. Venice: Domenico Farri. 
1574. 12mo. 669,(5)pp. Index. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page. Cont. limp 
vellum with the remains of 3 (of 4) original suede ties. Title-page with a 
partly crossed out contemporary inscription.     $600.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Handy pocket reprint edition of this extraordinarily popular humanistic 
collection of poetry which became the most widely known anthology of classical 
Latin poetry. Verses from Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Marial, Claudian, Boethius, 
Lucretius, Ausonius, and a few others are here selected, organized, and presented. 
In the humanistic fashion, it was created with a pedagogical purpose: the 
volume includes a remarkable 116-page analytical index of subjects prepared to 
lighten the burden of students in studying the great poetry of pagan Rome. 
BM/STC Italian 441.

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