34. Dati, Carlo Roberto.
VITE / DE' PITTORI ANTICHI / SCRITTE ED ILLUSTRATE /
DA CARLO DATI / NELL' ACCADEMIA DELLA CRUSCA / LO
SMARRITO. / Colle postille della prima edizione e con quelle che scritte
/
in margine dello stesso Autore furono publicate / nella seconda. /
MILANO / Dalla Società Tipografica
de' Classici Italiani, / contrada
di s. Margherita, No. 1118. / ANNO 1806.
8vo. Engraved portrait of Dati (1 leaf); title page ([1]); note on the
author ([3]-15); dedication (16-18); note to the reader (19-25); text
(27-294); index (1 unnumbered p.); errata (1 unnumbered p.).
Carlo Roberto Dati (1619-76) was born in Florence. He was an author,
a philosopher, a scientist, and a disciple of Galileo. From 1663 he was
secretary of the Academia della Crusca. His numerous linguistic and
scientific writings, as well as the Vite for which he is perhaps best
known, were praised for both style and language.
The Vite was first issued in 1667 at Florence. The book is a compilation
of the lives of the painters of antiquity, such as Apelles, Parrhasius,
and Zeuxis.
It was in the University library before Jefferson made up his want
list. Although it appeared in the Kean catalogue, it was more fully identified
in the 1828 Catalogue. That copy has not survived, but a duplicate
has been acquired recently, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation.
U. Va.
*ND110.D3.1806
