Il pastor fido : tragicomedia pastorale del molto illustre signor caualiere Battista Guarini, poeta e filosofo preclarissimo : aggiontoui di nouo in questa impressione le Rime dello stesso autore, & di bellissime figure adornato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guarini, Battista, 1538-1612.

Contributor:

Ciotti, Giovanni Battista, active 1583-1635, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Plays -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)

Tomitano, Giulio Bernardino, 1761-1828 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 288, 189-329 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Rime dello stesso autore

Fingerprint:

sia- a.el i.i, taoi (3) 1621 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Giouan Battista Ciotti, MDCXXI [1621]

Notes:

In verse.

Publication date precedes printer's statement on title-page.

"Rime del molto illustre signor caualiere Battista Guarini ... di nuouo in questa impressione corrette, & accresciute dallo stesso autore" has separate title-page with imprint identical to general title-page; pagination and register are continuous.

Dedication on a2r: "Al serenmo. principe, il signor D. Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duca di Mantoua & di Monferratto, &c."

Signatures: a⁸ A⁴ B-2D⁸ 2E².

Title vignettes (printer's device?; motto: "Micat aurea Phaebo"); head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut illustrations; woodcut portrait of author on a6v.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full parchment; title stamped in gold on a red leather label on spine; all egdes green.

Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2 have the bookplate of Francis Campbell Macauley on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 ms. bibliographic note by Giulio Bernardino Tomitano, bibliophil from Oderzo, on front free endpaper: "Edizione aggiunta dal Gamba dal Pegg a Testi di lingua. delle varie edizioni di questa tragicomedia vedi Bibl. dell'Eloq. pag. 461 e seg. e Crep ... [?] Di Giulio Bernardino Tomitano."

Cited in:

Herrick, M.T. Italian plays, 1500-1700, in the University of Illinois Library, p. 37

Contains:

Rime del molto illustre signor cavaliere Battista Guarini.

OCLC:

224570529