OVID IN SICILY/OVIDIO IN SICILIA,Pieraldo '86[De Romans,Ovidiane,LE METAMORFOSI

Allen Mandelbaum,
OVID IN SICILY.
A new verse translation of selections from
the «Metamorphoses» of Ovid,
with foreword, Latin facing text,
and fourteen color-plates from the «Ovidiane» sequence of paintings
by MARIALUISA DE ROMANS
A CONVIVIO BOOK, SHEEP MEADOW PRESS, NEW YORK/
Pieraldo Editore (Italia), Edizioni Casagrande (Svizzera),
stampato in Italia, senza data (1986?),
rilegatura in cartoncino blu con sovraccoperta illustrata,
con custodia in cartoncino blu, 28x28 cm., pp.76,
introduzione e traduzione in inglese di Allen Mandelbaum,
testo in Inglese/Latino,
con 14 tavole a colori, applicate sulla pagina,
di Marialuisa De Romans, tratte dalla sequenza di pitture "Ovidiane",
stampate su carta Bilux Extra della Cartiera Sottrici;
la stampa offset del testo è su carta Grifo Velina della Cartiera Fabriano,
ISBN 0935296646,
peso: g.900


CONDIZIONI DEL LIBRO:
esemplare in ottime condizioni,
piccole imperfezioni alla sovraccoperta,
la custodia in cartoncino è sciupata






CONTENTS
Foreword II
Creation 25
Ceres • Proserpina • Pluto 35
Arethusa • Alpheus 53
Galatea • Acis • Polyphemus 63
COLOR PLATES FROM THE «OVIDIANE» SEQUENCE
Ovidius 15
My Soul Would Sing of Metamorphoses 19
Bodies Becoming Other Bodies 23
Book of Changes 27
That Earth Might Be Symmetrical 31
That Lord of Darkness 37
Typhoeus Vomits Flames 41
Many Flowers, Many Colors 45
The Way To Tartarus 49
Arethusa! Arethusa!" 55
That He Might Mingle with Me 59
One Hundred Reeds 67
My Eye Has Seen 71
Down from the Mass of Rock 75


This Convivio volume was designed by Czeslaw Jan Grycz in close
collaboration with Libero Casagrande and Pieraldo Vola. The Latin
text follows William S. Anderson's Teubner edition of the Meta-
morphoses (2nd edition, Leipzig, 1982), except for: " diffundi" in I,
36; "depositique metus" in v, 363; and "varios" in V, 390 (which
follow Ehwald's 1915 Teubner text); and "ignes" in V, 389; "sum tibi
fida" in XIII, 748; and "vereor" in XIII, 858 (which follow N. Heinsius'
text). The type was set by the Istituto Grafico Casagrande of Bel-
linzona in Monotype Bembo Series 270. The Roman type of that
series is a modern descendant of the typeface used by Aldo Manuzio for
Pietro Bembo's De Aetna in 1495, while the Italic is much indebted to
the Venetian calligrapher, Giovannantonio Tagliente. The color-plates
were prepared and printed in an offset edition with the text by Pieraldo
Editore at the i.g.e.r. in Rome. Of that edition, 350 copies were
reserved for the Associates of the University of California Press.
A limited, signed edition in letterpress, using the tipped-in, offset
color-plates of Pieraldo Editore, was produced by Edizioni Casagrande
for the presentation of this volume and the Ovidiane sequence of
paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Gibellina in May,
1986. The paper used for printing the color-plates is Bilux Extra of the
Cartiera Sottrici; the paper for the offset edition of the text is Grifo
Velina of the Cartiera Fabriano; and for the letterpress edition, the
paper is Arches of the Papeterie Arjomari at Arches in the Vosges.