Discorso universale... [with] La creazione del mondo descritta da Filone Hebreo

Book Description

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1574. Reference: Bongi, II, 346; Gamba, 1393; ICCU Edit 16 (online), CNCE 18742.. Quarto (21 cm); [16] 231, [1] pages; [28] leaves. Headpiece and printer's phoenix device on title page. Ten woodcut vignettes (8 x 6 cm) framed in architectural borders; over eighty woodcut historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Bound in nineteenth-century marbled paper-covered boards. Trimmed a little close, but without loss. Old illegible stamp on title page. Pages very lightly toned, and otherwise without marks or blemishes. In 1561, the scholar-printer Gabriel Giolito acquired permission from the Venetian Senate to commission the humanist Lodovico Dolce to write a history of the world. Dolce died in 1568 without delivering the manuscript. Giolito had hired Agostino Ferentilli to help the aging Dolce organize his papers, and we suspect that the present text is an elaboration made from Dolce's notes. It was first published in 1570, and it became a staple in Giolito's catalogue for the next ten years. Of the six editions published, the 1574 edition offered here is the only one that included shoulder notes! It is almost universally found bound together with Ferentilli's translation of Philo's "On the Creation.

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