Author: CAPILUPI, L.
Title: Centones ex Virgilio.
Description: Roma, Valerius Doricus imprimebat, ca.1555-60?]. 4to. (19, 5x13, 7cm). [iv], 64, [4] pp. Late 19th cent.half calf with marbled boards. (a few old annotations (editorial corrections? See Tucker p.284), slight marginal worming throughout; very slightly foxed, a few light waterstains) ¶ Dedicated to Joachim du Bellay by the editor Antonio Possevino. Possevino might have played a rather dubious role in re-issues of the Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachum (see Tucker p. 284 and further) ¶ With an emblematic woodcut on the title-page. EARLY EDITION OF LELIO CAPILUPI'S 'PATCHWORK POETRY'. ¶ Early, rare edition of these (satirical) poems made up of verses of another poem, a sort of 'patchwork'. ¶ Mantuan poet Lelio Capilupi (1497-1560) seems to have been very reluctant to have these centones published at all, not in the least "through anticipation of the moral and religious reaction this ... would provoke." Indeed, his 'Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachorum' - a pastiche of verses from Virgil made up to attack monks; Cento II in our copy - was put on the Index in 1557 (G. Tucker in: Ut Granum Sinapis, pp.285-86). ¶ Early gatherings of this collection of 13 centones (including this one) still remain a "bibliographical and historical puzzle". According to Tucker, this would be a collection printed in "Stage 1.B" (very shortly after the death of Julius III in March 1555; see copies in the Vatican Library and Siena). (Tucker pp.267, 282-83, 285) ¶ Other issue of Rhodes IV (Rhodes, Lelio Capilupi and the 'Centones ex Virgilio' in: The Library 1994, pp. 208-218) ¶ Same title-page as Edit16: CNCE 9139 but different collation. ¶ Only 4 real copies in Worldcat

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