Fragmenta vetustissimorum autoru[m], summo studio ac diligentia nunc recognita

4to. pp. [2] (blank), [8], 102, [4] (last 3 blank). Signatures: a-o4. Half vellum over marbled boards. Engraved initials, headpieces. Printed annotations. Early ownership note of Joannes Pylius.

 

Nanni is considered to be the actual author of the texts here presented as fragments of antique authors.

 

Contains (from title page):

• Myrsili Lesbii de origine Italiae et Tyrrhenorum Lib. I

• M. Porcij Catonis Originum Lib. I

• Archilochi de Temporibus Lib. I
• Berosi Babylonij Antiquitatum Lib. V
• Manethonis sacerdotis Aegyptiorum de Regibus Aegyptiorum Lib. I

• Metasthenis Persae annalium Persicoru[m] Lib. I
• Xenophontis de Aequiuocis Lib. I
• Q. Fabii Pictoris de aureo seculo, & origine urbis Romae Lib. II
• C. Sempronij de divisione Italiae Lib. I
• Sex. Iulij Frontini V.C. de aquaeductibus urbis Romae Lib. II

 

See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, F830. On Annius, see several contributions in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, esp. A. Grafton, “Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His Information;” S. O’Connell, “Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical Figure;” and W. Stephens, “Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo’s First Master Critic.”

 

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