ALLACCI’S SOPHOCLES
SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.
Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος. Ηλεκτρα. Οιδιπους τυραννος. Αντιγονη. Οιδιπους επι Κολωνω. Τραχινιαι. Φιλοκτητης.
Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:) 24 December 1552].
[issued with:]
TRICLINIUS, Demetrius. Εις τα του σοφοκλεους επτα δραματα … Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553.Two parts in one vol., 4to, pp. Sophocles: [viii], 400; Triclinius: [iv], 147, [16] [1, blank]; O4 blank, woodcut devices to titles, woodcut initials and headpieces; occasional spotting, but a very good, wide-margined copy; bound in modern vellum over boards, retaining old gilt edges; faded ownership inscription ‘Ex Biblioth. Allatii’ to title-page (see below).
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Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος. Ηλεκτρα. Οιδιπους τυραννος. Αντιγονη. Οιδιπους επι Κολωνω. Τραχινιαι. Φιλοκτητης.
A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek owned by the Vatican librarian and Greek scholar Leone Allacci, with his name on the title-page. Sophocles’ seven tragedies narrate the stories of the Greek heroes and heroines Ajax, Heracles and Deianeira, Oedipus and Jocasta, Philoctetes, Antigone, and Electra.
Leone Allacci (or Allatius, 1586–1669), from Corfu, converted to Catholicism and attended the Pontifical Greek College in Rome, where he also taught, before being appointed as scriptor at the Vatican Library; he was involved in the transport of the Palatine Library from Heidelberg to Rome. He wrote Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus (1633), a compilation of the lives and works of significant men designed to reflect glory on the Barberini family, following the election of Pope Urban VIII, which eventually led to his appointment as librarian to Cardinal Francesco Barberini; in 1661 he became librarian at the Vatican. Allacci owned a substantial library, rich in manuscripts, much of which is now in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome; his copy of the Aldine Epistolae diversorum philosophorum of 1499, containing an identical inscription, is at Winchester College.
BP16 114347 and 115203; USTC 154217.
