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réf. 159074 — Venice Venetiis Apud Nicolaum Pezzana 1715. 12mo. VI64013 index1 blank. Calf 15.5 cm 'Kind of prize copy' Ref: Not in Schweiger though he mentions other editions; cf. Graesse 576; cf. Ebert 15445 Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Woodcut ornament on the title. § On the lower part of the pages below Ovid's text Juvencius notes in Latin Condition: Binding scuffed corners bumped. Head and tail of the spine damaged. Prize inscription on front flyleaf. Paper somewhat foxed and yellowing. Name and old ink inscription on the flyleaf at the end Note: The Roman poet Ovidius 43 B.C. - 17 A.D 'is perhaps the most consistently influential and popular writer of the classical tradition . Most would agree that it is his Metamorphoses that has had the greatest influence but his other major poems the Heroides Tristia Fasti and particularly his racier works the Amores Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris have played their part in maintaining his reputation as a writer of enduring importance and appeal'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 667 § Ovid was widely read in antiquity and remained to be read at the Carolingian court in the Middle Ages. The 12th/13th centuries are even called the 'aetas Ovidiana' for Ovid's love elegy was one of the mainsprings of the phaenomenon of courtly love and its literary expression. His 'Ars amatoria' and the 'Remedia' became even part of the school curriculum. Ovid became also the favourite poet of the Renaissance. Especially his 'Metamorphoses' were a source of inspriration for Boccaccio Dante Petrarca Chaucer Shakespeare Milton and in modern times Kafka T.S. Eliot Freud et many others. § This school edition of Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid is the work of the French Jesuit scholar poet and paedagogue Joseph de Jouvancy or Jouvency in Latin Josephus Juvencius 1643-1719. Jouvancy entered the Society of Jesus when he was sixteen 'and after completing his studies he taught grammar at the college at Compiègne and rhetoric at Caen and the College of La Flèche. He made his profession in the latter place in 1677 and was afterwards appointed professor at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris. In 1699 he was called by his superiors to Rome to continue the history of the Society of Jesus begun by Niccolo Orlandini and was engaged on this work until his death. . Jouvancy edited a large number of school editions of Latin authors including Terence Horace Juvenal Persius Martial the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the philosophical writings of Cicero such as De Officiis Cato Major and Laelius'. The texts were revised and purged for school use and supplied with footnotes in Latin. 'These expurgated editions were frequently reissued well into the 19th century both in France and other countries'. Source for Jouvancy Wikipedia § This Ovid edition was rather popular. Dozens of editions were published in Europe in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century Provenance: Piemontese provenance. The manuscript prize is for 'Carolus Philippus Testa' of the 'Schola Clarascensis' and is awarded to him in 1717 by 'Magistro Joê Boucher Tullensi'. Most probably a prize for one Carlo Filippo Testa of a school in the Italian city Cherasco Clarescum in Piemonte and donated by a magister named Johannes Boucher from Toul. § The Piemontese origin seems to be confirmed by the inscription on the verso of the flyleaf at the end. It is in Italian and is to thank 'mio caro amico' 'Chiera Pietro da Mondovi' who was a 'compagno in grammatica'. We found a Pietro Chiera from the Piemontese city Modovi who taught Latin grammar at a Piemontese school from 1851 till 1854. § At the end the name 'Rovere Gio Battista da Magliano 1863.' Who this Italian from the Tuscan city Magliano was we could not find out Collation: A-2D12 2E6 Leaf E6 verso blank hardcover