Il Goffredo / del signor Torquato Tasso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Contributor:

Malespini, Celio, 1531-

Perchacino, Gracioso, active 1553-1601, printer.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Gerusalemme liberata

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Loescher & Seeber (label) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

La Medicea (Florence, Italy) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves, 112 leaves, 12 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Edition:

Nouamente corretto et ristampato con l'Allegoria dello stesso auttore, con gli argomenti d'Orazio Ariosti et allegorie à ciascun canto d'incerti autori; aggiuntoui due copiosissime tauole ...

Fingerprint:

ral- si8. e.s- GeEc (3) 1581 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Gratioso Perchacino, MDLXXXI [1581]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Celio Malespina, 1581.

This edition, the second edited by Celio Malaspina, contains the entire poem; the new dedication, signed by him, is addressed to Giovanni Donato and dated: "Di Venetia, 28 zugno" - Cf. Gamba, B.

Printer's device (Zappella 1046) on title page.

Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁴ A-P⁸ Q⁴.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in one quarter calf; author and title stamped in gold on spine; housed in a slip case.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has label of bookseller Loescher & Seeber, Firenze, 20 via Tornabuoni, on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full parchment; author and title stamped in gold on a label on spine; all edges speckled red.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookseller's label of "La Medicea", Libri rari di culture, Firenze, on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 imperfect: lower part of title page torn and mended with blank paper.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 34061

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, p. 283, no. 945

OCLC:

4091541