Il Goffredo ouero Gierusalemme liberata : poema heroico / del Sig. Torquato Tasso ; con l'allegoria vniuersale dell'istesso, et con gli argomenti del Sig. Horatio Ariosti ; aggiuntoui i cinque canti di Camillo Camilli ; et alcune stanze in lode del poeta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Contributor:

Ariosto, Orazio, 1555-1593.

Melchiori, Francesco, 1528-1590

Imberti, Domenico, active 1585-1615, printer.

Dante and Tasso Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Gerusalemme liberata

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

American Antiquarian Society (inscription) (stamp) (RBC copy)

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831 (inscription) (RBC copy)

Greidy, Mr. (inscription) (RBC copy)

Gridley, Jeremiah (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages, 496 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 120, 123-144 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Goffredo overo Gierusalemme liberata

Goffredo

Fingerprint:

deco u-e, i.i, **Mo (3) 1643 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia ... : 2, A. MDCXXXXIII [1643]

Notes:

Imprint date appears before printers' names on title leaf.

Signatures: a-b¹² A-X¹², ²a-f¹².

Leaves X9-X12 and ²f12 are blanks.

Woodcut title vignettes, initials, head-piece and tail-pieces.

"Cinque canti" has separate signatures and pagination and special dated title leaf which reads: Cinque canti di Camillo Camilli. Aggiunti al Goffredo del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Di nouo da lui con somma diligenza reuisti, & coretti. Con aggiunta de gli argomenti à ciascun Canto del Signor Francesco Melchiori Opitergino. Con licenza de' superiori. In Venetia, MDCXLIIII. Appresso gli Heredi dell'Imberti.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dante and Tasso Library Fund.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from The Owl at the Bridge.

RBC copy has 19th-century ms. inscription ("Mr. Greidy 3/6 Presented to the Am. Antiqn. Society by Isaiah Thomas 1816") in brown ink on verso of left board; round stamp ("AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY WORCESTER, MASS.") on title leaf.

RBC copy has autograph ("Jer. Gridley"), possibly that of Jeremiah Gridley (1702-1767), in brown ink at head of title leaf.

RBC copy has wormhole in lower portion of first or second leaf of most gatherings and fifth or sixth leaf of many gatherings with minor damage to text; tail outer corner of leaf C11 torn off with minor loss of text on verso; head outer corner of leaf H4 torn off with some loss of text; tail outer corner of leaf V7 torn off with some loss of text.

Contains:

Camilli, Camillo, -1615. Cinque canti.

OCLC:

987038781