Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472):
[ Momus ] Leonis Baptistae Alberti Florentini Momus. - Romae: Ex Aedib. Iacobi Maz[ochii]. Ro[manae]. Academiae Bibliopol[ae]., 1520. - [103] lvs. ; 4o. - Presumably edited by Giacomo Mazzocchi. - Type area 15,6 x 9,7 cm - Call number: Sch 051/198

Hints and Remarks:
The ‚Momus' text published in 1520 by Giacomo Mazzocchi does not fulfil the requirements of a critical edition. Fortunately, the ‚Momus' text as edited by Rino Consolo (Genova : Costa e Nolan, [1986]) is available at the Biblioteca Italiana web site. This is a plain e-text version without index, table of contents or notes.
The recent edition: Momus. By Leon Battista Alberti. Latin text ed. by Virginia Brown. Transl. by Sarah Knight. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press, 2003. XXV, 407 pages. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library ; 8) contains a summary of content (part of the introduction), a critical apparatus based on manuscripts not exploited before, and a useful index.
We hope our readers will be able to use these resources for analyzing and searching the present Mazzocchi edition as well.

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Table of Contents:
(Title page) fol. 1a
(Printer's Privilege) fol. 1b 
(Dedication) IACOBUS MAZOCHIUS PETRO ACCOLTO CARD. ANCONITANO S. P. D. fol. 2a 
LEONIS BAPTISTAE ALBERTI FLORENTINI MOMUS (Incipit: PRINCIPEM, opificemque rerum optimum, et maximum Deum, …) fol. 3a 
(Liber primus) (Incipit: MIRABAR, si quando apud nos humiles mortales …) fol. 6a 
LIBER SECUNDUS (Incipit: QUas perturbationes Momi exilium apud mortales excitaverit, hactenus recensuimus : nunc dicendum qua ratione ab exilio in Iovis gratiam restitutus fuerit : …) fol. 29b 
LIBER TERTIUS. (Incipit: SUperiores credo libri rerum varietate, et iocis delectarunt. …) fol. 58b 
LIBER QUARTUS. (Incipit: VIde quid sit improbitas : et nequitia : ut cum eius esse exstinctam vim ad laedendum credas, reviviscat. …) fol. 80a 
(Explicit: Quorum in numero putantur divitiae : honores : et talia ab mortalibus expetita omnia fortunae arbitrio relinquerentur : ut ex iis plenas manus desumeret : et quantum cuique videretur : atque in quos libido traheret conferret.) (Colophon) fol. 102b 
(Errata) fol. 103a