Lo'nfarinato secondo ovvero Dello' nfarinato accademico della Crusca, risposta al libro intitolato Replica di Camillo Pellegrino ec. Nella qual risposta sono incorporate tutte le scritture, passate tra detto Pellegrino, e detti accademici intorno all'Ariosto, e al Tasso, in forma, e ordine di dialogo. Con molte difficili, curiose, e gravi, e nuove quistioni di poesia, e loro discioglimenti, e con la tavola copiosissima.

8vo: [16]-398-[47] pp. (last bl. missing, very pale dampstaining in begin., foxing, sometimes extensive, ff. of quire Y browned, sm. marg. damp stain at end).

Mod. three-quarter sheep, marbled blue paper covers, blind-orn. flat spine (sl. rubbed, staining, two corners bumped).

Unique edition of an answer to a work written in 1585 by C. Pellegrino in a context of apology and defense between Salviati and Pellegrino. Pellegrino defending the superiority of Torquato Tasso and his "Gerusalemme liberata" on Ludovico Ariosto and Salviati defending the author of the "Orlando furioso" and criticising Tasso. Salviati (1539-1589) was a leading philologist, consul of the Florentine Academy in 1566, and one of the main promoters of the foundation of the Accademia della Crusca in 1582. As accademico, he received the nickname of Infarinato. Crusca's emblem on title; 2 woodcuts in-text. Occasional ms. corrections in Italian, one extended on p. 340.
Ref. EDIT16 27778. - Gamba 583. - STC Italy 339. - Not in Adams.