Lactantius, Opera. Subiaco,
[Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 1465

First edition of the first dated book in Italy, printed in a semi-Gothic type. The use of Greek (which was apparently in short supply and not available in the early quires) is not only of typographical but also of Hermetic interest: Lactantius (3rd c.) quotes fragments from the Asclepius in Greek, thus preserving original text known otherwise only through Latin translation. Furthermore he quotes from Hermetic fragments unknown from any other source. In Hermes, Lactantius found a pagan prophesying the advent of Christianity.