til00332000

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til00332000

Headings:

Lucianus Samosatensis (Ps- Lucianus) De virtute conquerente. Add: Dialogus de funerali pompa [Latin] (Tr: Rinucius Aretinus)

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Lucianus Samosatensis [pseudo-]: De virtute conquerente [Latin] [Translated from the Greek by] Carolus Marsupinus Aretinus [pseudo-; Leo Baptista Alberti] ‘Lutiani philosophi libellus De virtute conquerente, in quo introducitur Mercurius accitus a virtute petens quid ipsa velit, et illa factum exponit suum, traductus a Graeco in Latinum noviter per Carolum Aretinum.’ Incipit: ‘[M]ercurius: virtus dea per epistolas oravit modo ut ad se huc exirem ...’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... Vir. aeternum lamentandum est, ego nuda et despecta abeo.’ ‘Lutiani philosophi De virtute conquerente libellus explicit.’
2. [a3r] Lucianus Samosatensis [pseudo-]: Dialogus de funerali pompa [Latin] [Translated from the Greek by] Rinucius Aretinus. ‘Lutiani philosophi Graeci Dialogus de funerali pompa per Rinutius traductus.’ Incipit: ‘[S]aepe et multum ea mecum cogitavi que tu in hac clade de morte funeralique pompa ...’ [a6r] Explicit: ‘... feruntque acerbissimas esse poenas, rotas scilicet lapides vultures atque vitam cuiusque examinari necesse est.’ ‘Lutiani philosophi De funerali pompa dialogus explicit foeliciter.’

Imprint:

[Rome; [Milan Eucharius Silber; Antonius Zarotus about 1493]; 1490] 4° Reichling assigned to Zarotus; De virtute conquerente is said in the book to be a translation by Carolus (Marsupinus) Aretinus of a work by Lucianus; it is in fact Leo Baptista Alberti's original Latin Virtus Dea Secundo folio: pere consuluere. Neque enim Polycletes pennicu [a2r]

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[a⁶]. Woodcut initials.

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ISTC: il00332000