SIMEONI (Gabriello) - OVIDE La Vita et Metamorfoseo d'Ovidio, Figurato & abbreviato in forma d'Epigrammi da M. Gabriello Symeoni. Con altre Stanze sopra gl'effetti della Luna : il ritratto d'una Fontana d'Ouernia : & un' Apologia generale nella fine del libro. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1584. - In-8, 245 pp, (29 ff.). Lemon morocco, gilt fillets and roulette framing the boards, ornate smooth spine, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (19th-century binding). Posthumous edition, reproducing page for page the 1559 edition, of this rare work by the philosopher and astrologer Gabriello Simeoni (1509-1576), proposing a poetic version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, dedicated to Diane de Poitiers. The illustration includes a portrait of Simeoni on the title, a vignette at the head of the poem dedicated to Diane de Poitiers, a representation of three medals, and 188 vignettes by Bernard Salomon, each accompanied by the corresponding text and a special frame of arabesques and grotesques, sometimes placed differently from the 1559 edition. The work also includes two other texts: La Natura et effetti della luna nelle cose humane... consisting of eight leaves, the penultimate of which includes a full-page woodcut depicting the fountain at Royat in Auvergne, where the author stayed, and the Apologia generale, of 16 leaves, adorned with a vignette on the title and 4 woodcuts representing 2 medals and 2 antique bas-reliefs. A very fine copy in 19th-century morocco, from the library of Count François Potocki (1788-1853). (Some rubbing from use, a slight nick on the second cover, corners slightly dulled).