Metamorfosi lirica d'Horatio parafrasato, e moralizato da Loreto Mattei Consacrata all'augustissimo nome di Eleonora Gonzaga d' Avstria imperatrice

Rieti, [Italy]: per Gio. Pitoni con Lic. de Sup, 1679. 8vo, pp. [16], 361, [3]; Latin and Italian on facing pages; woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full parchment, later red morocco labels on spine, sprinkled edges; very good, sound, and clean. The first Mattei edition. Loreto Mattei (1622-1705) was an Italian poet and historian and arguably the greatest of the Rieti writers. His Horace was reprinted in Bologna in 1682 and again in 1686, together with the translation of the Ars Poetica, and in Rome in 1682. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. OCLC locates the Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Virginia copies in North America.