L'epistole d'Ovidio volgarizzate.
Hard cover
1785 · Bassano
by Ovidius Naso, P (i.e., Ovid); Girolamo Pompei (1731-1788).
Bassano: Remondini, 1785. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); xxviii, 410 pages, and engraved frontispiece of the poet, book and muses. Engraved device on title page, engraved ornaments throughout. Text in Italian and Latin. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards, with title hand-tooled in gilt directly on spine, rupturing the vellum along the edge of the gilt ornament. Later owner's ink stamp on preliminary blanks and title page. Very few spots or blemishes in text.
Translation (with original Latin text) of Ovid's Heroides by the 18th-century poet from Verona. Pompei wrote lyrics, tragedies, literary and philosophical essays, and is best remembered for his translations of Plutarch, Ovid and other classical texts. Heroides is Ovid's book of imaginary letters of complaint from the mistreated women of classical mythology addressed to their heroic husbands and lovers, who have abandoned them or misused them. With this book of fictional epistles, Ovid invented a completely new literary mode, never seen before in Classical literature. (Inventory #: 4592)
Translation (with original Latin text) of Ovid's Heroides by the 18th-century poet from Verona. Pompei wrote lyrics, tragedies, literary and philosophical essays, and is best remembered for his translations of Plutarch, Ovid and other classical texts. Heroides is Ovid's book of imaginary letters of complaint from the mistreated women of classical mythology addressed to their heroic husbands and lovers, who have abandoned them or misused them. With this book of fictional epistles, Ovid invented a completely new literary mode, never seen before in Classical literature. (Inventory #: 4592)