Volume 1

A manual of classical bibliography: comprising a copious detail of the various editions of the Greek and Latin classics, and of the critical and philological works, published in illustration of them, with an account of the principal translations, into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc / [Joseph William Moss].

  • Moss, Joseph William, 1803-1862.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A manual of classical bibliography: comprising a copious detail of the various editions of the Greek and Latin classics, and of the critical and philological works, published in illustration of them, with an account of the principal translations, into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc / [Joseph William Moss]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SI I’utilitk deir Iliade ed Odissea di Omero, come I’oggetto del Poema volgarizzato, o si^ della Guerra de’ Ranocchj e “ de’ Sorcj, e se sia pasto veraniente di Omero ; viene a dare al Pubblico un notabile saggio di quella forbita erudizione, e “ prontezza d’ingegno, che molto piu spieccher5 negli anni av- “ venire, e nel iiuovo impegno di sostener con onore la pubblica “ Catedra di Logica e Metafisica, che nello Studio di Padova al Sig. Ab. Antonio Lovagnoli teste fu conferita.” Novelle della Repub. delle Lett. An. 1745, p. 9-10. This version is held in considerable estimation. Copies are not easily pro¬ cured. Veron. 8vo. 17-1^6. (II primo libro dell’ Iliade.) II primo e secondo furon publicati, ivi, 1749, in-8.: e il primo, e secondo coll’ aggiunta del terzo, di nuovo, ivi, 1752, in-8. Tradotti dal Marchese Scipione MafFei. Traduzione molto lodata.” Haym, v. ii. p. 198.— Mr. Hobhouse, in his Historical Illustrations of Childe Harold, observes respecting Piedmonte, that ‘‘ from the “ beginning of the Revolution he has passed his time be- tween Venice and Verona, his native town, and chiefly em- “ ployed upon a translation of the Odyssey. There are many “ Italian translations of Homer, but not one has yet obtained “ that complete success which the voice of that nation and the “ sanction of the learned world alone can bestow. Pindemonte “ has, it is probable, judiciously selected this poem in prefer- “ ence to the Iliad, which would have required more imagina- tion and more energy than are the characteristics of his style. “ The two first books were published some time ago, and “ Italy was as impatient as such a prospect can make her for “ the remainder of the performance. The whole translation appeared at the close of the last year, but what was the ef- “ feet or judgment resulting from it, cannot, of course, vet be “ known.” p. 420-1. Flor. 4to. 1767. (L’lliade.) Trasportat. in ottava rima dal Giov. del Turco. In the first part of vol. 1. is a Dissertation upon the Poems of Horner, the Life of the Poet, on Greece, and on what may conduce to a better understanding of Homer: the second part contains the first book of the Iliad, illustrated with some grammatical notes. I am not aware that any more than these two parts have been published. Venez. 8v(). 1776. (L’lliade e Batracomiomacdiia.) dh'ad. per A. C. Ridolfo. 2 vols. My\NTUA. 8vo. 1778. (L’Odissea.) Trasportat. dal Jos. Bozoli. Reprinted in 1793, in 12ino. in 3 vols. 15s.