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Ariosto, Ludovico

Orlando Furioso by M. Lodovico Ariosto of the notes of the most famous authors, 1730

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Venice, Stefano Orlandini, 1730. 2nd in two parts, with related frontispieces. Intaglio portrait of Ariosto engraved by Caro Orsolini on the frontispiece, frontispiece in red and black with intaglio vignette depicting Ariosto's feat (fire driving bees away from hive, motto: Pro bono malum). 46 engraving plates (one at the beginning of each canto). Part II: Works by m. Lodovico Ariosto in this impression accurately collected, and adorned with selected annotations, volume two, which contains the Cinque cantos, which follow the material of the Furioso[…]. Frontispiece within an intaglio frame and 5 intaglio plates, all engraved by Giuseppe Filosi. On paper Z1r with small title page “Comedies […]” in a woodcut frame. Half parchment and marbled cardboard binding. Stamp on the title page of the Brescia 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 material" 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 Rime, the Erbolato, the Satires and poems in Latin.
Morazzoni, p. 213; Leg, 60; Melzi 173; Agnelli-Ravegnani, I, p. 3-4.