Folio.  Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, preface of Sigonius, Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus; 399 numbered leaves of text (blank last leaf wanting).  Part 2. Caroli Sigonii Scholia, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and blank end leaf.  Part 3. Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum, with separate title and device, 52 numbered pages.  Roman character, except epitomae i-xlv and index which are in the italic type of the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the Medici antiqui of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in an occasional preface or title-page.  Like the smaller italic of Paulus it is provided with capitals.  The large woodcut initials of the several books belong to the mythological series found in the Ptolemy but are here much worn.  Renouard, p. 215.

Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592.  This third edition is distinguished from those which preceded it by some additions to the Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents.  But typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active supervision of Paulus.  In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the intervening thirteen years.  In his absence the Venice press, when not inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his father and grandfather.  To the present edition Aldus contributed the Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia, and he is also unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a preference.  It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the addition:  Ex privilegio Maximiliani II.  Imp.  Caes.  Aug. When his father’s death had made him the head of the press he continued for some years to employ the same device.  For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible.  He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.