Zodiacus vitae, hoc est.

Palingenio Stellato (Marcello, ?pseud)

Zodiacus vitae, hoc est.

De hominis vita, studio, ac moribus optime instituendis, libri XII. Cum indice locupletissimo.

Description: woodcut printer's device on title, text in italic, tear through last leaf and this also with a few small holes on the blank area, 2 small neat rectangles excised from title-page (removing an ownership inscription), pp. 366, [42], 16mo, near contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, minor wear, good

Publication Details: Paris: Hiérome de Marnef and Guillaume Cavellat [colophon: Excudebat Carolus Rogerius] 1580

Notes: First published in Venice around 1531, this is a relatively early edition of a text that went through numerous editions, and translations, including one into English, 1565, by Barnabe Googe. 'The initial letters of the first 29 lines of the first book "Aires" form an acrostic of the author's pseudonym Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus, said by Facciolati to be the anagram of Pier Angelo Manzolli, of Stellata in Ferrare. Also attributed to Antonio Flam, and others' (note attached to the Cambridge copy in COPAC)....more

Bibliography: (Adams M503)Durling 2947 (1557 ed.); Wellcome I, 4026 (1552 and later eds).

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Price: £650

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1580

Stock Number: 57795

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