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Mauro, Giovanni

All of Mauro's terza rima poems, 1538

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Venice, for Curzio Navo, 1538, in 8vo. Also includes the terza rime by Messer Giovanni from the House of Messer Rino and others, with their own signature and title page. Full parchment binding, title page with gilt-stamped title and red marbled edges. Printer's stamps on the title pages, underlining and handwritten notes in brown ink in the margins. Light browning, restorations.

Specialist Notes

Mauro d'Arcano was among the protagonists of the so-called Accademia dei Vignaiuoli, founded in Rome in the early 1530s around the Mantuan gentleman Uberto Strozzi. This group of poets included Francesco Berni, Francesco Maria Molza, Giovanni Della Casa, Lelio Capilupi, and others.
Mauro competed with Berni for primacy in burlesque poetry, constructing his chapters in simple and often decidedly obscene language: compared to Berni's chapters, his compositions show a tendency towards prolixity, digressions and personal annotations. Mauro's 21 burlesque chapters in terza rima remain, probably composed between the early 1530s and 1535. His production includes Priapic verses ( Chapters of the Bean, Chapter in Praise of Priapus ), paradoxical chapters ( On Lies, On Famine ) and epistolary chapters (On the Journey to Rome to the Duke of Malfi, To Messer Ruberto Strozzi). In 1538, the same Navòs published a new edition (the one offered here), Tutte le terza rime del Mauro , which attributed 22 compositions to M.

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