The first Plantin edition of this renowned Latin epic poem on the Argonauts’ expedition in search of the Golden Fleece, edited by Louis Carrion (1547-95). Valerius Flaccus (1st century AD) was greatly inspired by the Greek Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. The text of Argonauticon, only rediscovered in 1411, reached the Renaissance in a corrupt and incomplete state. ‘There is no editor of this writer, who, since Baptista Pius, has deserved more the thanks of the classical world, than Carrio; he is supposed to have collated a very excellent MS. of his author. […] At the end are some notes of Carrio, in which a large commentary of the poet is promised, but which, in fact, was never published’ (Dibdin).
Adams V80; Dibdin I, 414; Brunet V, 1046 (mentioned). Not in Moss.