L'Eneide di Virgilio, del commendatore Annibal Caro. All'illustrissimo sig. Francesco Moresini Sauio di Terra Ferma, e senator grauissimo Virgil (Virgilio), Annibal Caro (translator)

Virgil's Aeneid, by Annibal Caro. To the most illustrious Mr. Francesco Moresini, Sauio of Terra Ferma, and most gracious senator Complete with refreshed endpapers and blanks. 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 1603 in Treviso, Italy by Appresso Euangelista Deuchino. In 19th century 1/4 parchment over paper covered boards. In Italian. Title, publication date, publisher and translator info in antiquarian ink on spine. Small quarto, 8" x 6", [8], 556 pp. Printer's device on title page and final leaf verso. Head- and tail-pieces; decorated initials. Complete. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Annibale Caro, K.M., (June 1507 - November 1566) was an Italian writer and poet. Caro's most important work were his translations. He is also the author of poems, sonnets, and a comedy called Gli Straccioni. Annibal Caro published a translation of the Aeneid of Vergil which was much admired by contemporaries and still read with pleasure by the lovers of the Italian language. CONDITION REPORT: Square spine, splitting along joints, front board a little loose. Trimmed pages. Refreshed endpapers. Chipping to parchment in several areas. Rubbed extremities. Soiling to boards. Sun-darkened spine. Age-toned endpapers and along perimeter of page margins. Multiple areas with worming, mostly marginal but with several leaves in the back with some slight text loss due to some worming. Grubby title page which is 80% detached. Marginal water dampening stains in multiple areas. Several pages with small marginal tears. Last quartile of book has multiple leaves with ragged bottom edges and some paper loss like a corner. Some other raggedy page edges. Some smudges. Several leaves with some antiquarian marginal paper restoration. Abrasion to text and printer device with some surface level loss on colophon page. Title page, colophon page and several blank flyleaves with heavily faded antiquarian writing. Craig Kallendorf's ex libris sticker on FFEP. Please view pictures as they are an important part of the condition description and book information. ***Be sure to check out my dozens of other rare Virgil works being listed for sale from the amazing Craig Kallendorf Virgil Collection***