Le amorose rime di M. Ascanio Centorio, caualier di San Iacopo dalla Spada, gentilhomo romano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Centorio, Ascanio, active 16th century.

Contributor:

Pagano, Matheo, active 1538-1562, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Stevens, Charles William (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 47 leaves, 5 unnumbered leaves (last 2 leaves blank) ; 16cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

osan e.e, i.oi DoGr (3) 1553 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Matteo Pagano], MDLIII [1553]

Notes:

Poetry.

Place of printing and printer from colophon, which reads: In Venetia per Matthio Pagan, in Frezaria, all'insegna della Fede. Il XXVIII di Giugno, MDLIII [28 June 1553]."

Signatures: A-O⁴.

Woodcuts: Pagano's device on title page (standing figure of Faith, a woman, shouldering a large cross with one hand, and holding a chalice with the Host in the other, within an oval frame bearing motto "Senza di me l'huom fassi [a Dio] ribello"); variation of device on verso of leaf [3] at end, in which Faith is a seated woman; historiated white initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Printed in italic type.

Celebratory preface addressed to the poet, signed by Giacomo Leocadio, and dated Aug. 12, 1552 in Bologna.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Charles William Stevens ("Stevens. The Gardens. Peckham. Rye Surrey.") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

NUC pre-1956 101:158

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 165

EDIT 16 CNCE 10782

OCLC:

706826352