L'undecimo di Virgilio, tradotto per Bernardino Daniello (RARE) Virgil (Virgilio)

L'undecimo di Virgilio, tradotto per Bernardino Daniello (The Eleventh of Virgil, translated by Bernardino Daniello) ***RARE copy. Few institutional holdings. Rarely comes up for sale. Textually complete. Without a few rear blank flyleaves (per usual). *** RECENT PROVENANCE: From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf (1954 - 2023), who owned the largest private collection of antiquarian Virgil works (1,150 editions, not including Incunable books) in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies, 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble, supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition, special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid, accessed in both Latin and Italian editions, contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication, according to reviewer Diana Robin (Renaissance Quarterly, 55.4 [2002], p. 1394), Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." ABOUT THE BOOK: Published in 1545 by Giouanni de Farri & Fratelli in Venice. Text in Italian and in italic type. Curiously, the only works of Virgil printed by the publisher were the 11th book of the Aeneid and the Georgics by Virgil, both in 1545. Bound in modern fine half brown calf over marbled paper covered boards: cover paper bordered in gilt; gilt spine bands with gilt title in compartment two and tooled gilt fleurons in the other five compartments. Thin Octavo, 6.5" x 4.25", foliated 34 [1] leaves. Griffio's griffin device on title page with motto "Virtute duce, comite fortuna;" CONDITION REPORT: Textually complete. Missing a few blank flyleaves. Endpapers refreshed. Externally fine with a few areas of light rubbing along back cover margins. Square spine, firm hinges and joints, square corners, very tight pages. Internally: Title page has two words in much later pencil writing and oxidation of woodcut. Large water dampening stains throughout book, particularly to the head of text block. Some margin worming on several leaves toward both the front and rear of book. Smudges to margins. A few leaves with corner tips slightly bent. A few light creases. Renewed endpapers. Margins trimmed. FFEP affixed with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf."