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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius

Heroides epistolae cum interpretibus Hubertino Crescent. et Iano Parrhasio. Eiusdem Sappho cum Domitio et Ibis cum Christoph. Zaroto. Cum enarrationibus Iod. Badii Ascensii in haec omnia

Venice
Giovanni Maria Bonelli
1558

€160 - €240

4to, [8], 158 ff, woodcut printer's device on title page, title page soiled, beautiful woodcut initials and two vignettes, marginal annotations, some marginal wormholes in the last lvs. Later half leather binding, repaired with scotch

Collection of 15 fictional letters of ancient Heroines to their famous lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them, e.g. Penelope to Odysseus, Dido to Aeneas, Medea to Jason.
Ref. CNCE 60460

Classics