Live auction - Lot 677
Il Raverta, dialogo [...], nel quale si ragiona d'amore, et de gli effeti suoi.
Venice, G. Giolito de Ferrari, 1549 (1550)
Hammer price: €
150
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: 96 ff. (sl. spotting, mostly marg., sm. soiling on title).
18th-c. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, spr. edges (sl. rubbed, staining on front cover, flylvs reinforced with 19th-c. paper).
Rare dialogue (1st 1544) between Franceschina Baffo, Lodovico Domenichi and Ottaviano della Rovere under the name of Raverta, on love, its nature, effects and place in the universe. It contributed to popularise Neo-Platonic moral among Renaissance readers. Among the subjects covered: "Della forza di Amore, et cio che diventa l'amante amando", "A che ne serve il corpo per amare le bellezze dell'anima", "Qual sia maggior difficultà fingere amore non amando, o amando dissimulare di non amare", "Qiame età in amore sia piu d'abbracciare", "Qua sia piu possente passione, Amore, o odio", etc. By the writer and poet Betussi (1520-1575). Printed in italics; Giolito de Ferrari's mark on title and on last leaf.
Ref. EDIT16 5672 (reading "Rauerta"). - Adams B-851. - STC Italy 91. - Not in Gamba.