CLEOPHILUS, Franciscus Octavius (1447-90). Opera nunquam alias impressa. Anthropotheomachia. Historia de bello Fanensi. Et quaedam alia . Edited by Franciscus Polyardus. Fano: Girolamo Soncino, 29 January 1516. 8° (149 x 93 mm). Collation: A-E 4 a-i K-L 4 . 64 leaves. Italic type by Francesco Griffo. 2- and 3-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Title lightly foxed, occasional light dampstaining.) Early 20th-century citron morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION of the previously unpublished works of the humanist Cleophilus, a native of Fano. His De coeto poetarum and two collections of his letters had been published in Rome by Eucharius Silber in the fifteenth century, but the Faneidos , a history of Fano in verse, had remained unpublished before the present edition. The brief poem at the end, entitled Stinchae , is a detailed description of the old prison (the Stinche ) of Florence; of the first edition, printed separately by Silber ca. 1483-85, only 3 or 4 copies survive. Girolamo Soncino (Gershon ben Moses), the first printer at Fano, was a member of the Jewish family of itinerant printers who produced an important corpus of Hebrew books of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Repeatedly forced to move by religious persecution, Girolamo, the most active member of the family, established presses successively at Soncino, Brescia, Barco, Fano, Pesaro, Ortono, Rimini, Cesena and Saloniki. He remained longest in Fano, establishing the city's first press there in 1502, leaving in 1507, and returning for a brief period in 1515-17. Most of Soncino's Fano imprints were non-Hebrew, and of a humanistic character. Soon after setting up his press in Fano he obtained the services of Francesco Griffo, who cut an italic type for him. This was first used in his 1503 edition of Petrarch, in the dedication of which Soncino credited Griffo with having both designed and cut all of Aldus Manutius's typefaces. As is evident from the present edition, Soncino's editions are justifiably renowned for the quality of their printing and typography. Adams C-271; Manzoni, Annali tipografici dei Soncino (Bologna 1883-86), 96; Norton Italian Printers , 24; A. Servolini, "Le edizioni Fanesi di Girolamo Soncino", Gutenberg Jahrbruch 1957, p. 115, no. 35.
CLEOPHILUS, Franciscus Octavius (1447-90). Opera nunquam alias impressa. Anthropotheomachia. Historia de bello Fanensi. Et quaedam alia . Edited by Franciscus Polyardus. Fano: Girolamo Soncino, 29 January 1516. 8° (149 x 93 mm). Collation: A-E 4 a-i K-L 4 . 64 leaves. Italic type by Francesco Griffo. 2- and 3-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Title lightly foxed, occasional light dampstaining.) Early 20th-century citron morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION of the previously unpublished works of the humanist Cleophilus, a native of Fano. His De coeto poetarum and two collections of his letters had been published in Rome by Eucharius Silber in the fifteenth century, but the Faneidos , a history of Fano in verse, had remained unpublished before the present edition. The brief poem at the end, entitled Stinchae , is a detailed description of the old prison (the Stinche ) of Florence; of the first edition, printed separately by Silber ca. 1483-85, only 3 or 4 copies survive. Girolamo Soncino (Gershon ben Moses), the first printer at Fano, was a member of the Jewish family of itinerant printers who produced an important corpus of Hebrew books of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Repeatedly forced to move by religious persecution, Girolamo, the most active member of the family, established presses successively at Soncino, Brescia, Barco, Fano, Pesaro, Ortono, Rimini, Cesena and Saloniki. He remained longest in Fano, establishing the city's first press there in 1502, leaving in 1507, and returning for a brief period in 1515-17. Most of Soncino's Fano imprints were non-Hebrew, and of a humanistic character. Soon after setting up his press in Fano he obtained the services of Francesco Griffo, who cut an italic type for him. This was first used in his 1503 edition of Petrarch, in the dedication of which Soncino credited Griffo with having both designed and cut all of Aldus Manutius's typefaces. As is evident from the present edition, Soncino's editions are justifiably renowned for the quality of their printing and typography. Adams C-271; Manzoni, Annali tipografici dei Soncino (Bologna 1883-86), 96; Norton Italian Printers , 24; A. Servolini, "Le edizioni Fanesi di Girolamo Soncino", Gutenberg Jahrbruch 1957, p. 115, no. 35.
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