Divine providence
THE buyer of a lot in a book sale held by Bellmans of Wisborough Green, West Sussex, on July 15 may find further research to be profitable. No doubt they know this already, since the 1762 French edition of Ovid’s , or , translated into Italian about two centuries earlier by Remigio Nannini, a Florentine friar, had cost £3,287 against the upper estimate of £300. It was a clean copy with the translator’s portrait, illustrations typographic ornamentations, but there must have been some greater attraction.
