Venice, Stefano Orlandini, 1730. In 2° in two parts, with relative title pages. Chalcographic portrait of Ariosto engraved by Caro Orsolini on the frontispiece, red and black title page with chalcographic vignette depicting Ariosto's feat (fire driving away bees from 'hive, motto: Pro bono malum). 46 chalcographic plates (one at the beginning of each canto). II part: Works by m. Lodovico Ariosto in this impression accurately collected, and adorned with selected annotations, second volume, which contains the five songs, which follow the material of the Furioso […]. Title page within chalcographic frame and 5 chalcographic plates, all engraved by Giuseppe Filosi. On paper Z1r, half-title “Commediae [...]” in woodcut frame. Bound in half parchment and marbled cardboard. Stamp on the title page of the Brescian bookseller Angelo Delai.
Specialist Notes
Beautiful and rare illustrated edition of the works of Lodovico Ariosto. The first forty-six cantos of the famous chivalric poem are included in the first volume. The last five cantos "that follow the matter" of the Furioso are, however, printed in the second volume, together with other works by the author: seven comedies, two in prose, five in verse, a letter to Bembo, the Rhymes, the Erbolato, satires and poems in Latin. Morazzoni, p. 213; Leg, 60; Melzi 173; Agnelli-Ravegnani, I, p. 3-4.
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