Quattro comedie del diuino Pietro Aretino : cioè Il Marescalco, La cortegiana, La Talanta, L'hipocrito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556.

Contributor:

Wolfe, John, -1601, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 285 leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Nouellamente ritornate, per mezzo della stampa, a luce, a richiesta de conoscitori del lor valore.

Other Title:

Cortigiana

Talanta

L'hipocrito

Quattro comedie del divino Pietro Aretino

Fingerprint:

here ,ee, sai- Coce (3) 1588 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Printed by John Wolfe], MDLXXXVIII [1588]

Notes:

Place of publication and publisher from Woodfield and STC.

A reprint of the edition of 1560 with the addition of a letter of Aretino to Daniele Barbaro (L. 285 vo) Cf. Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua, no. 1204.

"La cortigiana", "La Talanta", and "L'hipocrito" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

Signatures: A-2O⁸.

Medallion portrait of the author on title page.

Woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on 4 pages at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf; title stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled floral designs on spine; all edges red.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Domenichi, Lodovico. Le due cortigiane. In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Franceschini, 1567.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 19911

Pforzheimer 800

Adams A1562

ESTC S120618

EDIT 16 CNCE 2486

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, 1204

Woodfield, D.B. Surreptitious printing in England, 43

OCLC:

84766706