P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis /
ex cod. Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta ab Antonio Ambrogi Florentino S.J., italico versu reddita, adnotationibus atque variantibus lectionibus, et antiquissimi codicis Vaticani picturis pluribusque aliis veterum monumentis aere incisis, et cl. virorum dissertationibus illustrata.

Description

Main Author: Virgil
Related Names: Ambrogi, Antonio, 1713-1788
Language(s): Italian ; Latin
Published: Romae : Excudebat Joannes Zempel prope montem Jordanum, Venantii Monaldini bibliopolae sumptibus, 1763-65.
Subjects: Etchings (prints) > Etchings (prints) / Italy > Etchings (prints) / Italy / 18th century.
Engravings (prints) > Engravings (prints) / Italy > Engravings (prints) / Italy / 18th century.
Note: Includes indexes at end of each vol. and errata at end of v. 1.
Translations also published separately.
Numerous engravings and etchings, including in-text ill., t.p. vignettes, a full-page frontispiece in each vol., head and tail pieces, and historiated initials. The full-page map facing p. [1] (v. 2) depicts Aeneas' route. Plate following p. 274 (v. 2) reproduces specimens of text from the Virgilius Romanus MS in the Vatican Library. Artists credited: Marco Carloni, Domenico Corvi, Gregorio Giusti, Carle van Loo, Pietro Paolo Panci. Engravers: Antonio Baratti, Francesco Barbazza, Johan Beheim, Ignazio Benedetti, Pietro Bombelli, Antonio Cappellan, Marco Carloni, F.P. Duflos, Alessio Giardoni, Niccolò Mogalli, Filippo Morghen, Gio. Onavioni(?), M. Pulini, G.B. Sintes.
Paging, v. 1: XCII, 211 p.; v. 2: LX, 336 p., [4] p. of plates; v. 3: XXIV, 343 p.
Physical Description: 3 v. ill., map, facsim. ; 44 cm. (fol.)
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