Epigrammatum libros XV interpretatione et notis illustravit Jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini - Martialis, Marcus Valerius 40-104; Collesso, Vincentius (Paris Cellier, 1680)
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist and is considered the creator of the modern epigram. Along with Roman graffiti, the Epigrams are important sources for Latin obscene words.
Nothing is known of this Vincentius Collesso, who claims to be a jurist and has no other publications to his name. Even his name is unstable: it is Vincentius Collesso at the head of the edition, Vincentius Colessus in the catalogue of the Ad usum Delphini collection found at the end of the preface to Ausone's edition (1730), Vincentius Collesius in the Bibliotheca Latina of J. A. Fabricius (t. 1, p. 465), Vincent Collés in the Nouvelle Biographie générale, t. 33, p. 1019, Vincent Collesson in the Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la BN, and finally Colesson in the British Museum Catalogue of printed Books. Given the poor philological quality of this work, there is no reason to regret that the name of its author has been forgotten.
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Contains an extensive index of 168 pages
Ex libris J. Buckle (Plate)
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); Satire; Poetry; History; Rome (Italy)