Note: Translated by Lodovico Dolce (1508/10-1568). Dolce translated the first book of the Metamorphoses for Bindone & Pasini in 1539, but did not publish any further volumes with them. According to The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605, p. 11, there were two editions published in 1553, with reprints by Giolito in 1555, 1557, 1558, 1561, and by Domenico Farri in 1570. WorldCat records most of these and a 1568 edition by F. Sansovino.

Synopsis: More an adaptation than a translation, Dolce uses different fables than Ovid did, resulting in a work "far removed from the original text of Ovid". (Source: Librairie Ancienne J.-Marc Dechaud, Crissay sur Manse, France). Dolce deliberately does not include the name of Ovid on the title page, and lists only his own name. On Dolci's original paraphrase of Ovidius see Ronnie H. Terpening; Lodovico Dolce Renaissance Man of Letters' (Toronto 1997).