Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonauticorum libri quatuor, nunc primum latinitate donati, atque in lucem editi. Ioanne Hartungo interprete. Acceßit locuples rerum & verborum memorabilium index.

€ 1,400.00

First Latin edition, the first 16th c. Latin verse translation of the most important and only complete epic of Alexandrine hellenism in imitation of Homer.

The classicist J. Hartung (1505-79) received the Heidelberg Chair of Greek in 1537. in 1546 he followed a call as Professor of Greek and Hebrew in Freiburg/Breisgau, where he also taught Poetry.

With dedicatory poems by Joachim Mynsinger, Jacob Micyllus, and Balthasar Acanthius; these are followed by emendations of the Greek text, improving upon the Aldine and the Frankfurt edition, with Latin and - “quite uncommon!” (cf. Hieronymus) - German notes in Gothic type.

Somewhat browned throughout (occasionally stronger). Small stamp of the Bonclerici Library on t. p.