Constantius, Jacob of Fano. Collectaneorum Hecatostys Prima.

(SONCINO PRESS)

Hieronymo Soncino (Gershom Soncino)

Fano

1508

First Edition. Latin interspersed with Greek (likely cut by Francesco da Bologna).

Adams C-2555; Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino 34.

A Renaissance humanist work on the poetry of Ovid. The author, Giacomo Constanzi (or, Jacobus Constantinus, c. 1473-1517), a native of Fano, was Professor of Latin and Greek at Ferrara. Famed as a publisher of Biblical and rabbinic books in Hebrew, Soncino also issued works of Christian theology, Humanism and general Italian literature.