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First Edition. 4to in 8s, ff.[6], CCLXXXII; title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Dio Cassius to *4v, oblong woodcut scene at the opening of each of the 22 books; very slight marginal worming to first few quires, occasional light staining; a very good copy in contemporary Venetian morocco relaid over modern boards, covers panelled in gilt and blind, front cover lettered in gilt 'Dione Historico'; spine renewed, gilding refreshed in places, some rubbing to extremities and light abrasions to covers; marginal annotations to c.35pp. and c.22pp. in two seventeenth/eighteenth-century hands, initials 'G.P.B' stamped in ink to title.First edition of Dio Cassius's Roman History in any language, translated into Italian from the original Greek by Niccolò Leoniceno and preceding the Greek editio princeps, printed by Robert Estienne in 1548, by some fifteen years. Born and raised at Nicaea in Bithynia, Dio Cassius (c.164235) served as a senator and consul in Rome, composing his famous Roman History in eighty books over the course of two decades, beginning with the landing of Aeneas in Italy and ending with his own retirement in 229. About a third of the work has come down to us intact, with books 3654, covering the years 6910 BC, surviving complete. This Italian rendering of books 37 to 58 was undertaken by the eminent Italian physician and humanist Niccolò Leoniceno (14281524), being completed by 1488 but remaining unpublished until this Zoppino edition. The text, encompassing the lives and deeds of Julius Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, is handsomely illustrated with oblong woodcuts at the opening of each book, variously signed 'm.f.' and 'm.p.f.', perhaps for the artist Matteo Pagano. These include numerous depictions of Caesar, fighting the Gauls and sailing to Britain for example, as well as of Brutus on his deathbed and the Emperor Augustus. This copy contains some interesting marginal annotations by two early readers. Notes to books 50 and 51 in a neat seventeenth-century hand show a particular interest in the story of Antony, Cleopatra, and Caesar, while those in an elegant eighteenth-century script record the names of various consuls and refer to other writers, including Tacitus and Flavius Josephus. EDIT16 CNCE17205; Adams D511; EsslingII, p.660; Sander 2436. Language: Italian.…

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