Discorso della virtu heroica et della charità / del Sig. Torquato Tasso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Contributor:

Baronio, Cesare, 1538-1607.

Giunta, Bernardo, active 1567-1627, 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:

Della virtù eroica e della carità

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Courage--Early works to 1800.

Courage.

Charity--Early works to 1800.

Charity.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

John Penington & Son (label) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

10 leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e-al a-ue ecco i,t- (C) 1582 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli, MDLXXXII [1582]

Notes:

"Al Sereniss. Sig. Monsig. il Cardinale Cesareo."

Woodcuts: publisher's device (coat of arms of Medici-Capello), initials.

Signatures: A-B⁴ C².

Requests dedicatee's assistance in ending his imprisonment.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine; remains of two leather ties.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound with: Tasso, Torquato. Il messaggiero. In Venetia : Appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli, MDLXXXII [1582] -- Tasso, Torquato. Discorso della virtu feminile e donnesca del Sig. Torquato Tasso. In Venetia : Appresso Bernardo Giunti e fratelli, MDLXXXII [1582] -- Tasso, Torquato. Il Gonzaga secondo, ouero, Del giuoco. In Venetia : Appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli, MDLXXXII [1582]

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has bookseller's label on front pastedown: "John Penington & Son, Importers & Booksellers, 127 S. 7th St, Philadelphia."

Culture Class Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by an anonymous donor.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full parchment; some blank leaves bound in at beginning and end of volume.

Cited in:

Grässe, VI, 39

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 661

OCLC:

39472349