Ventes live - Lot 920
[Venice imprint]
I dialoghi tradotti per M. Francesco Baldelli [...].
Venice, G. Giolito de Ferrari, 1550
€ 200 / 300
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Description du lot
8vo: 171-[1 bl.] ff. (some foxing).
17th-c. overl. vellum, spine on raised bands titled in ink, blue edges.
First edition of the Italian translation of Vergilio's dialogues by Francesco Baldelli ("Della pacienza, e del frutto di quella", "Della vita perfetta", "Della verità e della bugia" and "De' prodigi"). Vergilio (1470-1555), an Italian ecclesiastical who became a historian, went to England and received the favors of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Historiated initials, printer's marks of Giolito on title and at the colophon (diff.). Ref. Edit16 26169. - STC Italian 720. - Not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész. Prov. Flavio Floriani, jurisconsult and poet from Foligno, "fioriva c. il 1570" (ms. entry). - Libr. stamp on title-page.