Collection Highlight: Virgil's L'opere...

Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
L'opere di Virgilio Mantoano, cioè la Bucolica, la Georgica, e l'Eneide, commentate in lingua volgare toscana, da Giouanni Fabrini da Fighine, da Carolo Malatesta da Rimene, & da Filippo Venuti da Cortona.
 Venice: Heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, 1588.

On the title page we can clearly read the following Latin inscription indicating ownership of the book: Ad usum D. Francisci Mariae Senighi. 

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Collection Highlight: Varro's De Lingua Latina

Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 B.C.)
De Lingua Latina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus). [Rome: Georgius Lauer, c. 1471-2].

This Roman edition is the editio princeps of De lingua latina and the first work of Marcus Terentius Varro to be printed. Unfortunately, our copy is missing the first ten leaves, which included a letter addressed to Bartholomaeus Platina, a summary of the De lingua latina, and a mention to Laetus' editorial work on the text. 

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