1582 ALDINE PRESS CICERO by Aldus Pius Manutius antique VELLUM 16th CENTURY

DEL EPISTOLE di CICERONECICERONISScielte de Aldo Mannucci(Quotes from Cicero's Epistles selected by Aldo Mannucci.)Venice, [Aldo Manutius the Younger], 1582On leaf a2 dedication by Aldo Manuzio, dated 1 August 1575, to Claudio Pozzo. Rare edition . Refined dictionary of style with expressions, formulas and sayings taken from the letters of Cicero.Important work of the young Aldus Manutius, 1547-1597, editor, printer and scholar, son of Paolo and nephew of the more famous Aldus Manutius the Elder. These 'Locutions' chosen by the young and extremely erudite Aldus Manutius, are proposed in Italian and Latin: they will be, as the subtitle indicates, "very useful for composing in both languages." They also contain substantial Indexes, in Italian and Latin, to find the expressions contained in the book. Russo: “… the volume on the Locutions of Cicero's Epistles … in which the care that M., following in his father's footsteps, had dedicated for years to Cicero's epistolary flowed together and