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Discorso sopra tutti li primi canti d'Orlando Furioso / fatti per la signora Laura Terracina.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection IC55 T2758 550d
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terracina, Laura, 1519-approximately 1577.
- Standardized Title:
- Discorso sopra il principio de tutti i canti d'Orlando furioso
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Conduct of life--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- George L. Harrison Foundation (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 83 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations, portrait (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Discorso sopra tvtti li primi canti d'Orlando Fvrioso
- Fingerprint:
- r-lo o.no o.to InDa (3) 1550 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Vinetia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarii, MDL [1550]
- Notes:
- Poems; the final lines of the stanzas are taken from the first eight lines of each of the forty-six cantos of Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
- Printer's device (Zappella 538) on title page; variant device at end.
- Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴.
- Verso of final leaf blank.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author, title and printing date in ms. on spine.
- Culture Class Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with support from the George L. Harrison Foundation for the Encouragement of Liberal Studies and the Advancement of Knowledge,
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's description on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has printer's device and other woodcut illustrations partially hand-colored in red pencil.
- Culture Class Collection has facsimile copy in folio format available for public use.
- Cited in:
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 665
- Erdmann, A. My gracious silence, 123
- OCLC:
- 81161281
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