Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Quintus Sectanus. Satyrae. Numero auctae, mendis purgatae, et singulae locupletiores. Editio novissima accedunt arguemta, ac indices rerum, verborum et nominum […] Concinnante P. Antoniano. 2 vols.

With woodcut printer’s device on titles and many woodcut figures in the text. 10 leaves, 335 pp.; 10 leaves, 425 pp., 1 blank leaf. Large 8vo. Contemp. vellum with gilt lettered spine label. – Amsterdam, Apud Elsevirios, 1700.

Main poetical work by Lodovico Sergardi (1660–1726), protégé of Pope Alexander VIII, first published in 1696. Satyrical view on the Roman Society, especially the Clergy, the Nobility and their shameless women. Main target of Sergardis criticism is „Filodemo“, i.e. Gian Vincenzo Gravina, head of the poetical society „Arkadia“. The edition remained unachieved. It contains only eight of the best of the sixteen „Satyrae“. – Willems 2170. – Some minor worm traces to inner hinges. – Best.-Nr. 19737