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L'asinesca gloria / dell'Inasinito Academico Pellegrino.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartari, Vincenzo, 1531?-1590.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Donkeys--Humor--Early works to 1800.
- Donkeys.
- Italian wit and humor--Early works to 1800.
- Italian wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- 45 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- oipo debe nea- leua (3) 1553 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Vinegia : Nell'Academia Pellegrina per Francesco Marcolini, MDLIII [1553]
- Notes:
- A mock encomium of the ass, whose purported virtues are ironically contrasted with humanity's failings.
- Ascribed to Vincenzo Cartari by EDIT 16. "Opera attribuita anche ad Anton Francesco Doni."--EDIT 16.
- Colophon on leaf C6r.
- Signatures: A-C⁸.
- Woodcut illustrations (including title vignette), devices and head-piece.
- Illustrations: 1 large title vignette (78 x 78 mm., previously used as "Sterilita" in Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini (Venice, 1540)) and 21 small cuts, possibly designed for an edition of Apuleius's Metamorphoses (compare cut on p. 22, signed "L" (the blockcutter?) and unsigned cut from Apulegio volgare (Venice: Zoppino & Vicentio, 3 Sept. 1519) reproduced in Essling, Les livres à figures vénitiens, 2. pt. (1501-1525), p. 36). Probably not the work of Marcolini himself; cf. Casali, p. xii-xvii.
- Devices: leaf C7r: device of Francesco Marcolini, with motto: Veritas filia temporis (cf. EDIT 16 U720); leaf C8r: device of Anton Francesco Doni, with motto: Quel che più mi molesta ascondo et taccio (EDIT 16 Z446).
- Local Notes:
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf C6 wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has a few blank leaves inserted at end of volume.
- Cited in:
- EDIT 16 CNCE 9749
- Brunet II, 813
- Casali, S. Annali della tipografia ... Marcolini, no. 99
- OCLC:
- 23349721
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