PERSIUS, PUBLIUS AULUS (= PERSIUS FLACCUS).

Well produced school edition of the popular satires by Aulus Persius Flaccus Familiaris explanatio cum Iohan. Britannici eruditissima interpretatione. Argumenta satyarum de prefationis Persiane per Iodocum Badium.

      Lyon, Pierre Ungre Antoine Doulcet, 1510. - 4to. Modern half green morocco, spine ribbed with 2 black title-labels. With 3 woodcut initials on title and several fine woodcut initials in text. 84 lvs. Well produced school edition of the popular satires by Aulus Persius Flaccus, a Latin poet who lived in the first century at Rome and died when not yet 28. Here with the extensive comments and a life of Persius Flaccus by Johannes Britannicus, but edited and with his arguments added by Josse Badius Ascensius, including his famous "Persian preface" as well as prefaces by Philippi Beroaldi and Angelo Poliziano. The book is nicely printed in Italic types with the notes in somewhat smaller type all around the main text. On title a 7-line verse is added starting with "Proludendo docet Satyram se scribere posse". Persius Flaccus's highly educational satires enjoyed a lasting popularity and he is one of the most translated classical authors in modern languages. The satires were first printed at Rome in about 1470, and the first edition with Britannicus's notes appeared at Brescia in 1481. The first edition by Josse Badius was published at Lyon in 1499. Good copy.- (First and last lvs. sl. stained; small wormholes throughout). Renouard, Badius, III, p. 150, Persius 10; STC French 346; not in NUC. [Attributes: First Edition]