1586 Illustrium Poetarum Mirandula Latin Poems Virgil Ovid Horace Genvea Tournes

  

1586 Illustrium Poetarum Mirandula Latin Poems Virgil Ovid Horace Genvea Tournes. Octavianus Mirandula was a 16. Century anthologist who is best known for his collections of quotes and passages of famous authors.

In his work' Illustrium Poetarum Flores', Mirandula gathers several Latin quotes from works of Virgin, Ovid, Horace, Lucretius, and Catallus. It was regularly reissued throughout the 16. Century, but this edition collected by John of Tournes was the first published in Geneva. John of Tournes left Lyon in 1582 and began publishing in Geneva.

[Geneva]: Apud Joannem Tornesium, 1586. Binding: Vellum; tight & secure. 5in X 3.5in (13cm x 9cm).