Live auction - Lot 701
[Rhetorics]
Dialogi [...], della inventione poetica. Et insieme di quanto alla istoria et all'arte oratoria s'appartiene, et del modo di finger la favola [...].
Venice, P. Pietrasanta, 1554
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: 84-[12] pp. (some foxing, staining on pp. 23-24, (marg.) dampstaining, corners in last part gnawed at).
Mod. limp. cardboard in half brown buckram.
Unique edition of a treatise on poetics and rhetorics by Lionardi, poet from Padua, but also Doctor in law. He wrote famous madrigals for the componer Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588). Printed in italics; printer's mark on title.
Ref. EDIT16 45608. - Adams L-736. - STC Italy 379.
Prov. Unidentified crowned bookpl. and stamp.
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