Del tempio alla diuina signora donna Giouanna d'Aragona : fabricato da tutti i piu gentili spiriti et in tutte le lingue principali del mondo ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.

Contributor:

Pietrasanta, Plinio, active 16th century.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Italian

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Giovanna, d'Aragona, Duchess, consort of Ascanio Colonna, Duke of Tagliacozzo, 1502-approximately 1576--Poetry.

Giovanna.

Giovanna, d'Aragona, Duchess, consort of Ascanio Colonna, Duke of Tagliacozzo, 1502-approximately 1576.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Biblioteca nazionale marciana (stamp)

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages, 388, that is, 404, 128 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 145-159 pages, 36 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Del tempio alla divina signora donna Giovanna d'Aragona

Fingerprint:

,ee- laiu pio. PrNo (3) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Per Plinio Pietrasanta, MDLV [1555]

Notes:

Title vignette with arms of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruccio, the dedicatee.

Dedication headed: Girolamo Ruscelli.

Part 2, with separate paging & secondary signatures, contains verse in Latin, Greek and Spanish.

Signatures: [fleuron]-3[fleuron]⁸ A-2A⁸ 2B² a-h⁸ i² l-n⁸ o² (o2 blank).

A proposed second volume discussed in Ruscelli's "Ai littori" (see prelim. leaves 21-22) was apparently never published.

Numerous errors in paging; no. 361-368 trippled in first count; no. 129-144 (approximately equalling the omission of sig. k) omitted in numbering of second count.

Woodcut historiated initials; head- and tail pieces.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author, title and imprint in ms. on spine; brief title on lower edges.

Culture Class Collection copy has unidentified stamp with inscription ""R. Biblioth. Palat. Venet." on verso of title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has the stamp of Biblioteca Nazionale in Venezia (Biblioteca nazionale marciana) on leaf a1r and on leaf o1v.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 592

EDIT 16 CNCE 34714

OCLC:

228733937