Discorsi del S. Don Antonio Agostini sopra le medaglie et altre anticaglie divisi in XI dialoghi Tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell’Italiana con l’aggiunta di molti ritratti di belle et rare Medaglie [...]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Discorsi del S. Don Antonio Agostini sopra le medaglie et altre anticaglie divisi in XI dialoghi Tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell’Italiana con l’aggiunta di molti ritratti di belle et rare Medaglie All’ Ill[istrissi]mo et R[everendissi]mo S[igno]r Card. Caetano Camerlingo di S. Chiesa.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4to. pp. [4], 239, [72] (plates), [16]. Signatures: [cross]², A-2G⁴, a-b⁴. Early leather gilt, with 72 pages of engraved plates depicting Roman coins; lightly annotated throughout. The Spanish text, though mentioned in the title, was not included in this edition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">A translation of the Spanish first edition (Tarragona, 1587), including an extended treatment, in dialogue, of the Annian forgeries, among other questioned material, literary and physical; see W. Stephens, ‘When Pope Noah Ruled the Etruscans.’ In: Modern Language Notes, 119 (2004), pp. S201-S223; id., Berosus Chaldaeus: counterfeit and fictive editors of the early sixteenth century. Ithaca, 1979; id., Giants in those days: folklore, ancient history, and nationalism. Lincoln, 1989. See also H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, A2236. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991019242229707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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