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Lettura di Girolamo Ruscelli, sopra vn sonetto dell'illustriss. signor marchese della Terza alla diuina signora marchesa del Vasto : oue con nuoue et chiare ragioni si pruoua la somma perfettione delle donne & si discorrono molte cose intorno alla scala platonica dell'ascendimento per le cose create alla contemplatione di Dio et molte intorno alla uera bellezza, alla gratia, & alla lingua volgare ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Terza, Giovanni Battista d'Azzia, marchese della, 16th century.
- Terza, Giovanni Battista d'Azzia.
- Aragona, Maria d', 1503-1568.
- Aragona, Maria d'.
- Sonnets, Italian.
- Women--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered leaves, 77, that is, 81 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations (portrait) ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Lettvra di Girolamo Rvscelli, sopra vn sonetto dell'illvs. signor marchese della Terza ...
- Fingerprint:
- teRA lado ,&sa tuqu (3) 1552 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Venetia : Per Giovan Griffio, l'anno MDLII [1552]
- Notes:
- Includes a list of gentlewomen in Italy, divided by city; twenty-one sonnets dedicated to Maria d'Aragona, the Marchese del Vasco, and two dedicated to Giovanni Battista d'Azzia, by Pietro Aretino, Girolamo Ferlito, Francesco Sansovino and others.
- Signatures: a⁶ A-R⁴ S⁶ T⁴ V⁶ (V6 blank).
- Printer's device (Zappella 706) on title page; variant device (Zappella 698) on verso of final leaf.
- Woodcut historiated initials.
- Numerous errors in foliation.
- Errata on leaf V5 recto.
- Printed marginalia.
- Woodcut portrait of Maria d'Aragona on leaf V1r.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has crossed out ownership inscription on title page.
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author and title stamped in gold on spine; all edges blue.
- Culture Class Collection copy is a gift of Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten.
- Cited in:
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 593
- EDIT 16 CNCE 47659
- Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 698; 706
- OCLC:
- 43217997
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