Looks very interesting! How would one go about ordering it? Helen COB On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 06:05 PM, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
As most of you know, the listowner frowns on the use of this list for
commercial announcements, but smiles on notices like the following, which
isn't going to make a dime for anyone but which _is_ of direct interest to
the members of this group:
Matteo Venier, _Per una storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del
libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ (Udine: Forum, 2001). xxii+158 pp.
The book is in Italian, but I give an abbreviated table of contents in translation:
Preface Bibliographical abbreviations
1. Observations on the manuscript tradition in the 14th and 15th centuries
- Codices examined
- The "humanistic vulgate"
- MSS. with interpolations drawn from Servius
- MSS. copied from printed editions
2. Editions in print in the 15th century - The editio princeps edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi - The Mentelin edition - Editions derived from the first Roman printing - The edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its progeny - The second Roman printing: the Medici codex and the Pomponia variants - The editions of Leonardus Achates
3. Virgil editions, 1500-1520 - The first Aldine - The second Aldine - The edition of Giovanni Battista Egnazio - The Giunt edition edited by Benedetto Riccardini - The third Aldine and some observations on the formation of a system of punctuation - Conclusions - Stemma of editions
Appendix I: Corrections to the app. crit. in current editions (Ribbeck,
Mynors, Geymonat)
Appendix II: On discrepancies between the first and second Giunt editions
Conspectus siglorum Index of manuscripts Index of Virgil editions Index of names
I only received this on Friday, and haven't done much with it yet. I can say a few things:
- The book is well made, pleasing to read and pleasing to hold.
- The treatment is exhaustive, but not exhausting.
- It complements and builds on the bibliographical studies of Davies,
Goldfinch, and Kallendorf; ideally, this book should be read in tandem
with Kallendorf's most recent monograph, on _Virgil and the Myth of Venice_.
- It offers a detailed picture, not only of how the first printed Virgils
were assembled, but of textual criticism in the first age of print. If
you're interested in the process of how printers and editors chose their
copy-texts (whether it be from an unprinted MSS. or from a rival's printed
edition) this is definitely the book for you; a good follow-up, in this
regard, to Lowry's work on the editorial procedures (as opposed to the
editorial rhetoric) of Aldus Manutius.
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