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Florence, Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. In 4°, 125 pp, (2ccbb), half-title, chalcographic title page. Woodcut initials and friezes. Coeval full parchment binding, damaged spine, back plate with ink design/frieze.
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Original edition of this collection of sonnets by Alessandro Adimari, born in Florence in 1579 and died in 1649, dedicated to the description of ugly or deformed women, according to the scheme of a poetic genre very popular in the seventeenth century. Adimari, a follower of Giovan Battista Marino, wrote six collections named after the muses, each including 50 sonnets: La Polinnia, La Tersicore, La Clio, La Melpomene, La Calliope and L'Urania. The engraving on the title page is attributed to Stefano Della Bella but - according to Vesme - wrongly. "The fifty sonnets of Adimari praise the woman who is either small or humpbacked or lame or one-eyed or deaf or dumb or mangy or bald or blind; and then, beautiful who always laughs, beautiful who cries and so on. And not need I say what ingenious efforts the poet must resort to in order to find even the most repugnant women admirable and attractive" Anthony Belloni, Literary history of Italy. The seventeenth century, p. 83. Piantanida, p. 122.
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