Author: INTERIAN DE AYALA, Joannes.
Title: Humaniores atque amoeniores ad musas excursus: sive opuscula poetica quae quondam lusit aut panxit ... Ioannes Interian de Ayala ... quae in lucem edit ... Franciscus de Ribera ...
Description: Matriti: ex Typographia Conventus prefati Ordinis, 1729. 8vo. [32], 187 pages. Title in black and red. Pages lightly browned. Small paper repair at outer margin of leaf H3 (pages 117-118) without loss of text. 19th-century russet brown calf decorated with blind tooling; gilt title label on spine; minor repair to front cover; brown endpapers; all edges marbled. ***** Neo-Latin verses, which, apart from religious themes, include a poem in praise of chocolate, panegyrics and funeral odes, a poem on snuff, 'Icones philosophorum' (Pythagoras, Plato, Democritus, &c.), 'Horologium cum cantionibus musicis'. The final 16 pages include a few verses with Spanish translations appended: Martial, Ausonius, Juvenal, and Alciatus (emblems 194 and 108). ***** Palau 120851. Not in STC of 18th-century Spanish books in the British Library. NUC records only 1 copy - at Newberry Library.

Keywords: Neo-Latin, poetry, antiquarian, Hispanic, chocolate, snuff


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