tic00540000

Text-inc Id:

tic00540000

Headings:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Epistolae selectae (Comm: Martinus Phileticus) Add: Martinus Phileticus: In corruptores latinitatis (with additions by Homerus Podianus)

Subjects:

literature, rhetoric

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Phileticus, Martinus: [Letter addressed to] Iohannes Columna ‘Phileticus divo principi suo Iohanni Columne cardinali. S.P.D.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ythagoras in Italiam profectus dive princeps ...’ a5r Explicit: ‘... quas in exordiendis orationibus esse duximus. Sed iam ad expositionem accedamus.’
2. a5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius (comm. Martinus Phileticus): Epistolae selectae Incipit: ‘M. Cicero P. Lentulo imperatori S.P.D.’ Incipit: ‘’ r5v Explicit: ‘... et quorundam aliorum de his scripta legerentur.’ [Each letter by Cicero is followed by a commentary by Phileticus.]
3. r5v Phileticus, Martinus: In corruptores latinitatis ‘Phileticus in corruptores latinitatis’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum sepe numero per multos annos iuventuti Romane congratulatus ...’ s1r Explicit: ‘... in maledicos dixit sine responso remissum omittendos putemus.’
4. s1r Phileticus, Martinus: In corruptores latinitatis [2.] ‘Phileticus in eosdem corruptores insanos’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uantopere cunctarum rerum ignorantiam et insanabilem morbum ...’ s6r Explicit: ‘... Alia multa factitant que pro honestis officio dici non possunt.’
5. s6r Podianus, Homerus: [poem addressed to] Martinus Phileticus ‘Homerus Podianus Philetico S[alutem]’ Incipit: Quid quereris quos tam sevo Philetice plectro | Insequeris gemine spesque dedecusque lyre ... ... Prebebunt aures nullo obstrepente Quirites | Virgilioque parem te tua Roma colet. [16 lines.] ‘Finis.’
6. s6r Colophon: ‘[Editorial close and colophon addressed to the reader.]’ Colophon: ‘Lector Habes Ciceronem exulem ab urbe Rhodium corpore manentem. Scis edepol qualis in amicos qualis in emulos, qualis in affines exiterit. Doce si ad calamitatem, advolas quale regimen sequi debes Francisco Tuppo qui suo ere imprimi curavit gratias redde non obliviscaris Philetici qui mentem Tulii per historiographos, poetas, veteresque auctores in patulum eduxit, eum comenda et si sapis stude.’

Imprint:

[Naples] Francesco del Tuppo 4° Secundo folio: significare committimus ab [space left blank for a Greek word] appellata [about 1492]

Collation:

a-r⁸ s⁶ [Blank the first leaf.] 142 ll. [Woodcut initials.]

References:

Source: BL IA.29541 ISTC: ic00540000 BMC VI 872. Created by A. Panzanelli.