Quin. Horatii Flacci poetae Venusini, Omnia poemata, cum ratione carminum, & argumentis vbiq[ue] insertis, interpretibus Arcone, Porphirione, Iano Parrhasito, Antonio Mancinello, necnon Iodoco Badio Ascensio, viris eruditissimis. Scoliisque D. Erasmi Roterodami, Angeli Politani, M. Antonij Sabellici, Ludouici Caelii Rodigini, Baptistae Pii, Petri Criniti, Aldi Manutii, Mathaei Bonfinis, & Iacobi Bononiensis nuper adiunctis Pseudo

Folio, 4 p.l., 233 leaves.; collating a4, A-Z8, AA-EE8, FF10 (-FF10 blank); text in double column; printer's woodcut device on title page and colophon, woodcut initials and shoulder notes, woodcut portrait of Horace on A1 and repeated 10 times throughout; Erasmus's name canceled in ink on title and his name and additions to the commentary also canceled on about 10 leaves towards the back of the text; occasional contemporary annotations and underlining; a few unobtrusive ink smears; early ownership signature at the top of the title page, title and following leaf with neat restoration along the bottom margin, F2 with neat restoration of the outer corner affecting several letters, 2 old rubberstamps flanking the printer's device on the title; 20th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, sprinkled edges; faults aside, a very good, sound and clean copy. Erasmus's name was deliberately inked out or otherwise obscured in printed books by censors, as here. This was a form of censorship, particularly during the Renaissance, to suppress or diminish the influence of his writings. Sometimes, whole passages by Erasmus were excised, or his name was blotted out on title pages or in running heads of books. This edition of Horace's poems features commentaries that span the entire course of Horatian scholarship from the second to the sixteenth century. The notes include the comments of Helenius Acron, the second century grammarian whose text was reworked and expanded by later and medieval interpreters, and Pomponius Porphyrio (3rd c. A.D.), whose commentary "has come down to us in its original form, a genuine school commentary of the third century A.D., and one of the earliest organic examples of scholiastic activity that we possess" (GBC). The Renaissance commentators include the Italian scholar and poet Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), the scholar-printers Iodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) and Aldus Manuzio (1447-1515), Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536), Francisco Robortello (1516-1567), whose paraphrase of the Ars poetica (1548) was a seminal work in the study of Horatian and Aristotelian poetics, and Erasmus' friend Henricus Glareanus (1488-1563), the Swiss poet, musician, and scholar who was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Maximilian in 1512. This edition also contains Nicolaus Perottus' (1430-1480) discussion on the metrics in Horace's Odes. Mills College Checklist; no. 154; Riedel-Horatiana A-27. BM-STC Italian p, 333. This edition not in Adams.