Orlando furioso / di m. Lodouico Ariosto ; ornato di varie figure, con alcune stanze ; et cinque canti d'vn nuouo libro del medesimo nuouamente aggiunti, & ricorretti ; con alcune allegorie & nel fine una breue espositione, et tauola di tutto quello, che nell'opera si contiene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533

Contributor:

Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Orlando furioso. 1554

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Roland (Legendary character)--Romances.

Roland.

Roland (Legendary character).

Genre:

Romances.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 8 leaves, 9-588 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Orlando fvrioso

Fingerprint:

erno .5al o.o, CoEp (3) 1554 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, MDLIIII [1554]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁸ A-2Q⁸ 2R⁴.

Colophon reads: In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrai [sic] e fratelli. MDLIIII.

Title within woodcut architectural border, with printer's device (Zappella 535).

Printer's devices on p. [527], [589] and on last page.

Oval woodcut portrait of Ariosto on p. [16] (1st count), repeated on p. [524]; 51 woodcut ill. in text; woodcut historiated initials.

Printed in two columns with italic types.

Errors in paging: 152, 296 misnumbered 151, 966 respectively.

The "Cinque canti" and the "Espositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficile" (by Lodovico Dolce) have special title-pages; the first dated 1553, the second 1554.

Erratum: p. [15] (1st count).

In some copies, the dedication leaf is signed 'Aii" instead of '*ii". Mortimer suggests that this is a cancel leaf, but in fact it is only a variant signing.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription citing Fontanini as a reference source on front free endaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Loÿris" on verso of leaf 2R3.

Cited in:

Agnelli-Ravegnani. Annali delle edizioni ariostee, I, p. 92-94

Bongi, S. Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, I, p. 443-444

EDIT 16 CNCE 2684

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., I, 28

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 567

Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 535; 543

Contains:

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568. Spositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficili.

Espositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficile.

OCLC:

612467126