LUCANO [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus].- La hystoria | que escriuio en latin el poe- | ta Lucano: trasladada e[m] | castellano por Marti[n] | Lasso de Oropesa | secretario dela ex | celle[n]te señora | marquesa d’l | zenete cõ | dessa de Nassou.- En Lisbona: por Luys Rodriguez, 1541.- [10], cliiij f.; 20 cm.- E. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), Roman poet, born in Cordoba (Betic Hispania); despite his short life, he left us an extensive work, from which we only have the present text, known as Pharsalia, reporting the civil war between the supporters of Julius Caesar and those of Pompey the Great. Lucan would later participate in the failed conspiracy against the Emperor Nero, with whom he was a close friend, having been arrested and driven to suicide. The Spanish translation is by Fr. Martin Lasso (1499-1564), Spanish humanist, born in Oropesa (Toledo), secretary to D. Mencía de Mendoza, Duchess of Calabria, Marquise of Cenete and Countess of Nassou. Title printed in black and red, framed in a xilography engraving with Renaissance and architectural elements. The text is entirely composed in Gothic characters. On the back of the last page, an extensive colophon: “Aqui se acaban los diez libros de las guerras civiles que compuso en verso heroyco el famoso poeta Lucano [...]. Imprimieronse en la insigne ciudad de Lisbona a xx de mayo de mil y quiñientos e quarente y uno años: por Luys Rodriguez librero del Rey nosso señor” Title page with two old ownerships: one on the front (fray Ju[an] de Miravilla), another on the back (illegible). Small marginal stain on the first and last leaves; minor marginal restoration on folio lxxxi; occasional minor blemishes. Otherwise, an example with slight browning, but clean. Binding of the period, full flexible parchment (recovered?), with part of the ties missing. BN (16th century), 435. Library of King D. Manuel II, 260.