At the end- Tragœdia. Impressum Venetiis opera Bernardini Vitalis Veneti Mense Maio M.D.XXIX. - Small quarto. Cum privilegio. 4. ANTONII THYLESII CONSENTINI RE CORONIS LIBELLUS. At the end Romæ apud F. Minutium Calvum Mense Februario M.D.XXV. Of ANTONIUS THYLESIUS I know but little more, than that he was a native of Cosenza, in the district of Naples, and of Equestrian rank. Freytag, in his Apparatus Literarius calls him Poeta et orator celeberrimus. The following mention is made of him in Maittaire, vol. 3. p. 258, transcribed from Conrad Gessner's account of the works which he edited." "Antonii Tilesii Itali Consentini opuscula aliquot, partim jam prius diversis in locis, partim nunquam prius edita, tam styli Romana puritate, tum editione, varietate et lepore, argumentorum, magno studiosorum applausu excipienda, Joan. Oporino Basiliensi Typographo dedi, qui ea publicavit anno 1545, in 8vo. chartis 11. Ex his ligato sermone conditus est Imber aureus Tragoedia et poematia 7. soluto autem, Commentarii duo, unus de Coloribus, alter de coronarum generibus. Ab eo quidem tempore etiam alia quædam hujus autoris Poematia in Italia typis impressa nactus sum; quæ cum præcedentibus conjuncta denuo excudi optarim, ut tam elegantis scriptoris quæ extant omnia, uno volumine haberentur." The four tracts which I have described above are the original editions of this author's Latin works, of which the republication is mentioned in the paragraph transcribed from Maittaire. They are of remarkable rarity, but the Imber Aureus is by far the scarcest of the whole. Some of the poems of Thylesius have been inserted in the Deliciis Poetarum Italorum by Gruter, but they seem sufficiently curious to introduce a specimen in this place also. ANTONII THYLESII ARANEOLA. "Haeret Araneolæ laxis dum cassibus errans U 3 Concutitur, sed nulla datur fuga, forcipe nanq. E specula intentus raptim sese iacet alta Explorator, et implicitas hac mordicus atq. has Sed ne forte leues uolucres, infirmaq. tantum Quin tantis etiam stimulis furit ictus edendi, PETRI HÆDI ANTEROTICA SEU DE AMORIS GENERIBUS. In fine-Literis Capitalibus. Accuratissime impressum Tarvisii per Gerardum de Flandria. Anno Salutis M.CCCC. XC,II. die XIII. Octobris sub magnifico Prætore Augustino Foscarini. :: Finis :: small 4to. For assigning this a very distinguished place among the rarer books, I have the concurrent authorities of Maittaire, Braun, Clement, Freytag, De Bure, and others. In the first page there is in the centre in three lines, the title in capital letters. The nine following pages are occupied by the contents; on the tenth and following page are found the following verses: QVINTII AEMYLIANI CIMBRI PETRI HAEDI AN TEROTICA AD CVPIDINEM. Lasciviæ Veneris puer cupido! Cum |