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Alanus de insulis Anticlaudianus Venice: 1582 Written in the 12th century. A mixture of cosmology and mythology. Albricus The Images of the Gods Rome: c1480, 1510; Florence; c1492 and 1495-1600; Vienna: 1510, 1523; Basle: Hervagiana 1549 and 1570; Paris: 1578 In a Mythology of Latin Authors. Amsterdam: Wetstenium & Smith, 1742. Pseudo-Albricus Libellus de imaginibus deorum Paris: Jean de Marnef, 1520; Basle: 1549 This was originally thought to be by Albricus but is now known to be a much later Epitome Andrae, Johann Valentin Mythologiae Christianiae Strasbourg: Zetzner, 1618-9 This is the supposed founder of the Rosicrucians Anon Opuscula mythological physic et ethica Cambridge: 1671 Apollodorus Antheniensis Grammatici Bibliotheces Heidelberg: Commeliniana, 1599. 1st edition Rome 1555. Another edition Estienne 1559. Third edition is Saumur: Lenerium, 1661. This is Apollodorus' only complete work. Aratus Phaenomena graece Basel: Hervagiana, 1549 Another edition Venice: 1499 Bacon, Francis De sapientiae veterum 1609 -------------------------The Wisedome of the Ancients London: Bill, 1619 Translated by Arthur Gorges
Another edition Florence 1575 Bateman, Stephen The Golden Book of the Leaden GodsLondon: Marshe, 1577 Excerpts translated from Pictor and Cartari. Facsimile ed. New York: Garland, 1976 Baudouin, Jean Mythologie Paris: 1627 Boccaccio Giovanni Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium Vicenza: Bevilaqua, 1487 10 editions printed before 1532. The earliest in 1472 by de Spira in Venice. Facsimile edition by Vincenzo Romano also in 1472. A French edition, Paris: Le Noir, 1531. The next edition was printed in 1548 and 12 Italian editions printed after that date. Cartari, Vincenzo Imagini degli Dei, Venice: Marcolini, 1556 1st edition 126pp -------------------------Imagines Deorum Lyons: Honorat, 1581 1st Latin edition. A French edition published the same year by same publishers. ------------------------Le Imagini dei dei de gli antichi Venice: Marc Antonio Zaltieri 1592 -----------------------Les Images de Dievx des Anciens 1st French edition Lyons: Michel 1581 ------------------------Neu-Eroffneter Gossen-Tempel Frankfurt: 1692
Conti, Natale Mythologiae Venice: 1577 This is a moral and allegorical study of the Gods. Book X summarizes with an outline of the ‘hidden wisdom’ of the myths. Diodorus Siculus Bibliothecae Hanau: Wechel, 1611 Du Verdier Imagines deorum Lyons: 1581 Fraunce, Abraham Amintas Dale 1589 Fulgentius Mythologiarum Libri III Basel: Hervagiana, 1549 Gale, Thomas Opuscula mythologica physica et ethica (Greek and Latin) Amsterdam: Wetstenium, 1688 Giraldus De Deis gentium varia et multiplex historia Basle: Oporinus, 1548 Only 3 editions. Most scholarly of all mythologies. Interested in etymology of gods names rather than allegorical interpretation. Heraclitus De Allegoriis Venice: Aldus, 1505 Herold, Johannes Heydenweldt Basel: 1554 Hyginus, Gaius Julius Poeticon Astronomicon Venice: Ferrara, 1475 First edition. Another edition, Venice: de Blavis, 1482; Another ed., Venice: Erhard Ratholt, 14 October 1482. Also 1488; reprint of third edition, Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1485. First illustrated edition, and the first book to contain printed representations of the constellations. Another edition Venice: Sessa & Ravani, 1517 --------------------------Aureum Opus Paris 1512 -------------------------Fabularum liber Basel: Johann Herwag, 1535
-------------------------Mythographi Latini Amsterdam: Someren, 1681 Leonardo, Camillo Speculum lapidum Venice: 1502 Lucian Deorum Dialogi numero 70 Strassburg: Joannes Schott, 1515 One of the first Greek books printed in Germany Madrigal, Alonso La Sucesion de los dioses de los gentiles Antwerp: 1551 1st ed. Salamanca, 1506-7 Marolles, Michel de Tableaux de Temple des Muses Paris: Favereux, 1655 Montefalco De Cognominibus deorum Perugia: 1525 Munkerus, Thomas Mythographi Latini. C. Jul. Hyginus Amsterdam: Joannes à Someren, 1681 First edition. With Hyginus' Poeticon Astronomicon. Mythography Latini Amsterdam: Someren, 1681 Commentaries by Thomas Muncker. Chief texts included are Hyginus's Fabulae and Poeticon Astronomicon. See Fables. First edition of a similar work with the same title, edited by Hieronymus Commelin and published in Heidelberg in 1599. Ortelius, Abraham Deorum dearumque capital ex vetustis numismatibus Antwerp: 1572 Palaephatus Palaephati scriptoris Graeci Opusculum De non Credendis Fabulosis narrationibus Bologna: Benedictus Hector, 1515 Another edition Basel: Hervagiana, 1549 Paleotto, Gabriele Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane Bologna: 1581 Perez de Moya, Juan Philosophia Secreta con el origgen de los idolos, o dioses Madrid: 1585 Phornutus De natura deorum Basel: Hervagiana, 1549 Another edition Venice: 1505 Pictor, George Theologia Mythologica Freiburg im Breisgau, 1532 First mythological encyclopaedia of Renaissance. In dialog form, 2nd book on mythology, Apotheseos 1558 expanded edition. ----------------------De apotheosi Basel: 1558. ----------------------- Apotheosos tam Exterarum Gentium quam Romanoram Deorum 1558 ----------------------Physicarum quaestionum centuriae unde gentiles dii Basle: 1568 Pignoria, Lorenzo Discorso intorno le delta dell'Indie orientali et occidentali Padua: 1615 Pomey, Francois Antoine Pantheum mythicum Lyons: 1675 Third edition Proclus Sphaera (trans. Thomas Linacre, both Greek & Latin) Basle: Hervagiana, 1549 Rosse, Alexander Mel heliconium or political honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus London: Leak, 1642/3 Sallust De Diis et mundo Rome: 1638 Greek and Latin Silvestris, Bernard De universitate mundi 12th C mixture of cosmology and mythography Tritonius, Antonius Mythologia Bologna: 1560 Verderius Imagines Deorum 1581 Victoria, B de Teatro de los Dios Salamanca: 1620 Virgil, Polydore De gli inventori delle cose Florence: 1592 Vitoria, Baltasar de Theatro de los dioses de la gentilidad Madrid: 1620 1st & 2nd parts by Vitoria, 3rd part by Juan Bautista Aguilar Vossius, Gerardus Joannes De theologia gentili Amsterdam: 1641
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