Opera Ausonii Nuper Reperta
Parma [Italy]: Angelum Ugoletum [Angelus Ugoletus], 1499. Leather Bound. 86 leaves: 8 unnumbered and 78 numbered. 4to. Full leather, over boards carved in relief, with embossed decoration. Gilt lettering to spine. Page edges stained red. 3- and 6-line initial spaces. Woodcut printer's device at end. Text block trimmed, with some loss to pagination numerals. Manuscript notes to title page, with some handwriting practice; marginal notes. A couple of pages show repairs, some old tide marks to margins. Item #0100178
USTC 997367. OCLC 645166714. Ausonius was "a Latin poet and rhetorician interesting chiefly for his preoccupation with the provincial scene of his native Gaul... An incorrigible trifler and a victim of what he called “the poetic itch,” Ausonius left few works of any consequence. A characteristic piece of trifling is the Technopaegnion (“A Game of Art”), a set of poems in which each line ends in a monosyllable. His longest poem, on the Mosella (Moselle) River, has flashes of an almost Wordsworthian response to nature, with descriptions of the changing scenery as the river moves through the country." - Britannica.
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