Ovide - Cp, Ovidii Nassonis Poete Clarissimi In Ibim Opusculii. Around 1500, Modern Binding.

OVIDE - CP, ovidii nassonis poete clarissimi in ibim opusculii. Sl, se, around 1500; small 4to, 38 pp., modern binding with petrified wood covers from Scandinavia, text mounted on leather tabs, held by laces. Late 15th or early 16th century edition of 18 lines per page printed on beautiful period vellum in a beautiful modern binding executed by Isabelle Scappazzoni. Ovid (Publius-Ovidius-Naso) famous Latin poet born in Sulmona (Abruzzi) in 43 BC and died in 18 AD in Tomes, near the mouths of the Danube, was destined for a career as a lawyer. He studied in Rome, under Messala, became friends with Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius and gained the good graces of Augustus. He abandoned law very early to become a poet, also greatly influenced by a trip to Athens, signs of which can be found in his Metamorphoses. When he was forty, Augustus sent him into exile. He died a free citizen, in 18 AD in Tomes. Latin edition of The Ibis, or Against Ibis, is a libel by the Latin poet Ovid, written during his years of exile in Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. It is "a continuous stream of serious but erudite insults", in the vein of the poem of the same title by the Alexandrian author Callimachus.