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Guarini, Giovanni Battista

The Faithful Shepherd, 1659

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Leyda, Elzevier, 1659. In 24°, 128 x 78 mm. Title page and 6 full-page engraved etchings outside the text by Pierre Philippe, engraved headpieces and tailpieces, a perfect copy, refined amateur binding in blond calf with a double gold-filleted frame on the covers and a five-ribbed spine with gold title and decorations, dentils, and gilt edges.

Specialist Notes

VERY ELEGANT ELZEVIRIAN EDITION OF GUARINI'S MASTERPIECE.

An ingenious and bold experiment, Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy aspires to be a synthesis and innovative transcendence of the genres present on the sixteenth-century theatrical scene. Heir, in terms of themes and typologies, to a now consolidated and illustrious Ferrarese pastoral tradition, animated by a spirit of competition with Tasso's Aminta —which, however, does not exhaust the scope of Guarini's challenge—Il Pastor Fido, a text of deceptive lightness, displays a combinatorial exercise practiced at all levels.

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