Descripción

4to (195x140 mm). [8], LXXXI, [3] pp. Collation: A-L4 M2. Leaf A4 is a blank. Later wrappers, red edges. Printer's device on the title page and at the end. Woodcut initials. Repair to the upper margin of the title page, some pale staining throughout.
First edition (reprinted in Paris by Robert Estenne in the same year) of this paraphrase of 30 psalms, in Latin verse, “distinguished by taste and poetic excellence” (Ellinger).
Flaminio had been a prolific Latin poet from his earliest youth, but it was difficult to persuade him to allow his poems to be printed. In 1515, when he was barely eighteen years old, a small collection of his verses was published by Soncino at Fano; a few more were printed at Venice in 1529 together with the Odae of Sannazaro and in 1546 he allowed Valgrisi to publish his metrical paraphrases of thirty of the Psalms. In 1548 he authorized Sébastien Gryphius of Lyon to reprint his Psalms together with two books of Carmina. These were again reprinted by Valgrisi in 1548 in the volume Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum with the addition of two more books of poems (cf. J. Sparrow, Renaissance Latin Poetry: Some Sixteenth-Century Italian Anthologies, in: “Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller”, C.H. Clough, ed., Manchester, 1976, pp. 389-391).
Marcantonio Flaminio, born at Serravalle in the Veneto, soon became famous as a sort of poetic prodigy. For fourteen years he was in the service of Bishop Giberti of Verona. He turned down the position of secretary to the Council of Trent as well as the offer of a bishopric. His reformist sympathies were strong enough to cause doubts about his orthodoxy in the years after his death, but he died at Rome in the bosom of the church with which he had never broken (cf. C. Maddison, Marcantonio Flaminio, Poet, Humanist and Reformer, Chapel Hill, NC, 1965, passim).
Edit 16, CNCE19236; USTC, 830009.