Fragmenta Ciceronis, passim dispersa, Caroli Sigonii diligentia collecta, & scholiis illustrata ; quæ sequens pagina indicat. Secunda editio

8vo. ff. 179, [1] (missing ff. 63-64). Signatures: A8- Quarter-morocco-backed boards, gilt spine title, slight damage on spine. Table of contents numbered by hand; manuscript marginalia, some numbering corrected by hand. On f. 179v, manuscript copy of signatures index. Printer's device on title page and on verso of leaf [1] at end.

 

Second edition of the Italian humanist Sigonio’s compilation of every known (at the time) excerpt, fragment, and ancient cross-reference among Cicero’s genuine works and other classical citations, first published in 1559. The present work is an expanded version of the 1559 edition augmented by additional fragments brought to Sigonio’s attention by Fulvio Orsini, citing notes by Antonio Augustín. See W. McCuaig, Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance. Princeton, NJ, 1989, p. 296 n; E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 47-49, 69 n 21-23. In 1583, Sigonio published the ‘Consolatio,’ a notorious forgery of Cicero (see Bib# 4102811/Fr# 283 in this collection).

 

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