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Orlando Furioso; Dirigido al Príncipe Don Philipe Nuestro Señor, Traduzido en Romance Castellano por Don Jeronymo de Urrea. Hanse añadido breves moralidades harto necessarias a la declaración de los cantos, y la tabla es muy mas aumentada. Translated: Orlando Furioso; Dedicated to the Prince Don Philip, Our Lord, Translated into the Castilian Language by Don Jerónimo de Urrea. Brief moral commentaries have been added, which are very necessary for the explanation of the cantos, and the table has been greatly enlarged. (&) Comedia Dei Doctor Carlino, de Don Luis de Gongor.
Aristo, Lodovico · Venice
- Author
- Aristo, Lodovico
- Date
- 1575
- Place
- Venice
- Publisher
- At the house of Domingo Farris.
- Language
- Castilian
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.5" x 7.75") (576) pp. Contemporary speckled brown stiff paper wraps. Spine with four raised hubs with printed paper labels to second and fourth compartments, modern paper labels to foot. All edges speckled red. Verso of first free endpaper with prior owners info neatly in five lines in old ink. Multiple manuscript in old ink to title page, lightly faded prior ownership(?). The title page with Domingo Farris's large woodcut printer's device, lacking the blank leaf preceding it. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to board edges. head and foot of spine, joints, chipped with loss, closed tears. Old title label and other to spine chipped, rubbed, stained. Boards scuffed and rubbed. Slivers of dampstain to page margins, barely affecting a few letters of text. Illustrated with an engraved title page for each of the 40+ cantos with decorative initial caps beginning each. Lengthy gift inscription to rear free endpaper neatly in old ink,dated 1890. Some old ink manuscript to the bottom of some pages.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.10333
Orlando Furioso; Dirigido al Príncipe Don Philipe Nuestro Señor, Traduzido en Romance Castellano por Don Jeronymo de Urrea. Hanse añadido breves moralidades harto necessarias a la declaración de los cantos, y la tabla es muy mas aumentada. Translated: Orlando Furioso; Dedicated to the Prince Don Philip, Our Lord, Translated into the Castilian Language by Don Jerónimo de Urrea. Brief moral commentaries have been added, which are very necessary for the explanation of the cantos, and the table has been greatly enlarged. 1575. Venice: At the house of Domingo Farris.
Early Castilian translation of Ariosto’s celebrated Renaissance epic, following the intertwined adventures, loves, battles, and quests of Charlemagne’s knights. Jerónimo de Urrea’s influential Spanish translation includes moral commentaries intended to explain the poem’s cantos.
8vo.(5.5" x 7.75") (576) pp. Contemporary speckled brown stiff paper wraps. Spine with four raised hubs with printed paper labels to second and fourth compartments, modern paper labels to foot. All edges speckled red. Verso of first free endpaper with prior owners info neatly in five lines in old ink. Multiple manuscript in old ink to title page, lightly faded prior ownership(?). The title page with Domingo Farris's large woodcut printer's device, lacking the blank leaf preceding it. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to board edges. head and foot of spine, joints, chipped with loss, closed tears. Old title label and other to spine chipped, rubbed, stained. Boards scuffed and rubbed. Slivers of dampstain to page margins, barely affecting a few letters of text. Illustrated with an engraved title page for each of the 40+ cantos with decorative initial caps beginning each. Lengthy gift inscription to rear free endpaper neatly in old ink,dated 1890. Some old ink manuscript to the bottom of some pages.
Condition
Good
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