LUCREZIA. In Carum Lucretium poetam Commentarii... - Lot 68 - Ader

LUCREZIA. In Carum Lucretium poetam Commentarii a Ionne Baptista Pio editi: codice Lucretiano delige(n)ter emendato... Paris: Jehan Petit, Josse Bade, [August 1514] . - In-folio, 324 x 212 : (10 ff.), CLXXXIIII ff., (6 ff.). Half black grief with corners, spine with nerves, gilt arms in the last box (20th century binding). Renouard, 16th century Parisian printers & booksellers, II, 252. - Renouard, Josse Bade, III, 28-29Important edition, shared between Jehan Petit and Josse Bade, dedicated to François Deloynes (?-1524?), adviser to the Paris Parliament . This is the FIRST EDITION IN FRANCE of Lucretia's De Rerum natura (The Nature of Things), published by the Orleans humanist Nicolas Bérauld (1473?-1550?), a friend of Erasmus and Guillaume Budé among others, with the commentary by the Italian humanist philologist Giovanni Battista Pio (c. 1475-c. 1540), here in its second edition. The latter published his commentary for the first time in Bologna in 1511, the very first commented edition of this text. He used a copy of the Codex Pomponii Romani in the hand of the Italian humanist Pomponio Leto (1428-1498). Susanna Gambino-Longo in her study entitled The Question of the Mortality of the Soul in the Humanistic Commentaries of Lucretia by G. B. Pio and D. Lambin, gives this clarification as to why Pio decided to write the commentary on this poem: "Lucretia comes at a critical moment in the career of the humanist: after the break-up with his mentor, Filippo Beroaldo the Elder, Pio had left Bologna and went to Rome in search of intellectual recognition . These biographical data explain the scale and investment of Pio in this monumental work, which was later taken over in 1514 by Nicolas Bérault (at J. Petit's). By choosing to comment on Lucretius, in addition to the continuity and coherence with his research on rare, precious and archaic authors such as Fulgence and Plautus, Pio certainly int