SASSO, Panfilo | Saxus, Pamphilus | Epigrammatum An Italian Incunable Book of EpigramsSASSO, Panfilo. Epigrammatum. Libri quattuor. Distichorum. Libri Duo. De Bello Gallico. De laudibus Veronæ. Elegiarum liber unus. [Edited by Johannes Taberius]. [Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus Britannicus, 6 July 1499].First edition. Two parts in one small quarto volume (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inces; 207 x 140 mm.). [188] (of 192) leaves. (Collation: a10 b-q8 A8 B6 C8 D4 E-H8). Twenty-nine lines plus headline. Capital spaces, with guide letters. Two large initials (six-line on a3 recto and five-line on A1 recto) in blue with red penwork, numerous initials (twelve five-line, nineteen four-line, and one three-line) in alternating red or blue, rubricated in red, underlining in red. At head of title: Pamphili saxi Poetæ lepidissimi. Eighteenth-century calf. Covers with double gilt fillet enclosing a decorative blind border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with five raised bands. The lettering label has been lost but the title is still visible impressed into the spine. Board edges decoratively tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges stained red. First leaf a little stained and torn across with a very old repair, short tear (1 1/8 inch) to inner margin of h4, short tear (2 inch) tear to inner margin of h5, small portion (5/8 x 3/8 inch) of upper blank corner of p3 torn away (paper flaw), short tear (5/8 inch) in the lower blank margin of q3 (paper flaw). Slight browning to a few leaves, faint dampstain in the inner and outer margins of gathering G, a few additional leaves with soiling and/or staining. Faint early ink annotation on o4 recto. Otherwise a remarkably fresh copy. Booklabel on front pastedown with name erased.Quite rare: Only one copy has sold at auction in the last thirty yearsóa complete copy, from the library of Charles Fairfax Murray, at Sothebyís London in December 1991, which brought £3,400 plus premium. Only one institutional copy located in OCLC-RILN/KVK. The copy under notice has been bound without gathering r, which according to the British Library Catalogue (where the only institutional copy worldwide is found), should conclude the volume, yet these leaves do not contain any of Sasso's text. The missing gathering r contains: r1 recto-r3 recto Baptistae Mantiuanae ad Pamphilum Saxum [carmen], r3 verso blank, r4 errata, in double columns; it does not contain any text from the Epigrammatum i.e. there is no loss of Sasso's work.Humanist and poet Pamphilo Sasso (pseudonym of Sasso da Sassi) was born in Modena c. 1455 After more than his share of bad luck in life, he retired to live in Verona. After a stay in Brescia, he returned to Modena (1504) and opened a private school for literature and poetry. Publicly expressing himself on philosophical and theological issues, he was tried for heresy (1523) but though acquitted it was safer for him to leave Modena. He was offered and accepted the post of governor of Longiano in Romagna, holding the office until his death. He wrote verse in Latin and vernacular Italian on various topics including art, literature, and love. He wrote a book of elegies and four books of epigrams (the volume under notice) in Latin, and his work in vernacular Italian includes sonnets and strambotti (Opera of preclarissimo poet Messer Panfilo Sasso, 1501; Strambotti of clarissimo [. ..] Misser Sasso, 1506). He died in Longiano (Forlì) in 1527. BMC VII, p. 992 (IA. 31265). Goff P24. Polain 4710. Proctor 7045. 1499 first edition Price: USD 5,500.00 other currencies   order no. 00045    inquire

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