Spositione d'un sonetto platonico : fatto sopra il primo effecto d'amore, che è il separare l'anima dal corpo de l'amante, doue si tratta de la immortalità de l'anima secondo Aristotile, e secondo Platone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barba, Pompeo della, 1521-1582.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Platonic love--Early works to 1800.

Platonic love.

Immortality--Early works to 1800.

Immortality.

Plato.

Aristotle.

Penn Provenance:

Reichskartause Buxheim (inscription) (former owner)

Physical Description:

107 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Spositione d'vn sonetto platonico

Fingerprint:

I.e. i-ni erde ecsu (3) 1554 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Fiorenza : [Lorenzo Torrentino], MDLIIII [1554]

Notes:

Printer's name identified based on the device on title page (Zappella 1142).

Dedication signed: Pompeo de la Barba da Pescia.

Originally published, 1549, with title: Espositione d'un sonetto platonico ...

Signatures: a-g⁸(g7, g8 blank).

Dedicatory epistle to Barba signed: Lattantio Eugenìo da Montefano.

Woodcut initials.

Errors in pagination: p. 4, 5 misnumbered 40 and 33.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Carthúsiae Buxheim", belonging to Buxheim Charterhouse (German: Reichskartause Buxheim), formerly a monastery of the Carthusians and now a monastery of the Salesians.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 444

Graesse, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, I, 288

Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 1142

OCLC:

683737538