Printer from colophon, which reads: Venetiis, apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium MDLIII.
Signatures: *⁴ A-3F⁸.
420 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page.
Error in foliation: numbers 383-384 repeated.
Manuzio's commentary printed in small italic type; text of letters in larger roman type.
This edition not in BM STC Italian, 1465-1600.
Binding: "The motto is derived from Vergil's Aeneid, Book X, lines 468-469 (roughly, 'this is virtue's task'). It was adopted by two Italian academies, however neither devised an impresa which couples the sentiment with an image of a torch, a symbol of widely different meanings, among them the pursuit of knowledge or truth, perseverance, 'generosity of spirit and persecuted virtue'. Jacopo Gelli claimed that the first individual to use this motto was the celebrated theorist of images, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti (1522-1597)." Cf. Halwas.
Binding: Anthony Hobson relied on Gelli when tentatively assigning ownership of one of these five bindings to Gabriele Paleotti. By 1965, Hobson's doubts about Paleotti's ownership appear to have been allayed, as the volume was reintroduced as “bound for” Gabriele. Cf. Hobson.
In epistolas Ciceronis ad Atticvm Pavli Manvtii commentarivs