Second, enlarged edition of a collection of the most important works of the well-known Italian humanist and philologist Ottavio Ferrari (Milan 1607 - Padua 1682), containing his eulogies, letters, poetry, inscriptions, funeral poems and epitaphs. In 1634 Ferrari was called to Padua by the Venetian authorities to teach eloquence and Greek at the University and to improve the declining conditions of the University. In a few years Ferrari succeeded in doing this and he restored the University to its former luster. According to the famous Dutch scholar Isaac Vossius Ferrari and Giovanni Battista Doni were almost the only Italian scholars retaining a decent knowledge of antiquity.
From the library of the famous Spanish bibliophile Gomez de la Cortona (1805-1868), with his gold-tooled coat of arms on each board and his bookplate on the inside front board. Rector of the University of Madrid, he owned one of the most important private libraries in Spain in the 19th century. Most of his ca. 120,000 books were bound by the best bookbinders of Paris and London. Some occasional soiling, otherwise in very good condition. Diz. Biogr. degli Italiani, 46, pp. 643-646; Blok, Isaac Vossius and his circle, pp. 162-163, 170-173.