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542
Phil Berber
Boston, Mass
May '01
$16.00

Martialis, Marcus Valerius (c. AD 41 - c. 104)
Epigrammata. (Comm: Domitius Calderinus) c. 1444 - 78
See #421 482 Venice: Baptista de Tortis, July 17, 1485. f^0
Ref: Goff M-308 HC 10819 BMC V 324 Oates 1843
Copy: NYPL, LC, Harv CL P

a-u8 xy6. 172 leaves. 4^a. 631. of comm. surrounding the
text. 245x156mm Capitals spaces.
Types: 114 R* [P1] text type on large body. Separate Q
The 3 horizontals of E are of equal length. T with wide
foot. Medium single sloping hyphen. In use 1485-86
78 R [P2] comm. type. Introduced for use with 114 R
In use in 1481-86, 1490.

Tortis - 1st book assignable belong to the year 1481 -
continued his production beyond the end of the century.

Book X, 4-7

Calderinus was papal secretary under Sixtus IV and
professor of Rhetoric at Rome, where he numbered
among his pupils Aldus Manutius, Sabellicus +
Politian.
Martial was teh 1st to shape the epigram
into its present accepted literary form, + throughout
the Renaissance numerous editions fo his
Epigrammata were published attesting to its
wide popularity. There remains lttle question
that these early editions exerted a profound
influence on the Western literarure that followed.
The Epigrammata is a significant document
in the history of teh printed world as well, in