VIDA (Marco Girolama): - Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonsis, Albae Episcopi, Poematum, Quae haud plane disjunxit a Fabula, Pars Prima, Continens De Arte Poetica Libros Tres, Bucolica, et Epistolam Ad Joannem Matthaeum Gibertum. Edidit Thomas Tristram.

Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1722. 8vo, 217 x 131 mms., pp. [xxviii], 145 [146 blank], IX [X blank], including 16 pages of subscribers, engraved portrat frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, engraved head- and tail-pieces, engraved initial letters, later 18th century calf, double gilt rule borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; fronjoint slightly cracked, rear joint rubbed, but a very good copy. The Italian humanist and poet Marco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida (1485? – 1566) wrote Latin poetry, and his De Arte Poetica, influenced by Horace, proved to be a useful text for 18th century aestheticians. De Arte Poetica was translated by John Hampson and published in Sunerland in 1793; Hampson had nothing but praise for the author, his works, and his life style, taking his due from the above book: "It happened, in the winter of 1790, that Tristram's Vida fell into my hands. On reading the Poetics I was so struck by the justness of the observations and the general elegance of the poem, as to determine to translate it."