Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: pi²; a-b⁴ c² d-f⁴ g² h-k⁴ l⁶. Leaf l6 blank.
Woodcuts: title vignette of the device of the Accademia Alviana founded by Bartolommeo Alviano at Pordenone, whose members included Navagero, Girolamo Fracastoro, Giovanni Cotta, and other writers; device features a river god: the figure of an old man, wearing a leafy wreath, and holding a spray of leaves and flowers, his left arm resting on a vessel from which a stream of water flows, with caption "Naucelus."
Text printed in large roman type.
Orationes duae, carmina que nonnulla
This collection of orations and poems by Andrea Navagero, posthumously printed by a group of his friends a year after his death as a memorial to him, represents the first appearance in print of any of his work. Navagero was librariain of the Biblioteca Marciana, official historian of the Venetian Republic, and spent several years editing texts for his friend Aldus Manutius, including the 1519 edition of Cicero's Orationes. It was Navagero who persuaded Aldus to return to printing, and to whom Aldus addressed the long dedication of the Rhetorica ad Herennium.