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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius

Heroidum epistolae [...]. Ex Auli Sabini responsiones, cum Guidonis Morillonij argumentis, ac scholijs. His accesserunt Io. Baptistae Egnatij obseruationes
Venice
Giovanni Griffio
1580
€200 - €300

8vo: 221-[3 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics. (toned and spotted, some marginal staining, holes in O5-7 touching a few letters). Mod. limp boards, flat spine. Good copy

Later Venice ed. of Ovid's Heroical Epistles. 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. Edit16 35416. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old names on title