La Gerusalemme / di Torquato Tasso ; figurata da Bernardo Castello a Carlo Emanuello Duca di Savoia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Contributor:

Gentili, Scipione, 1563-1616.

Guastavini, Giulio, active 16th century.

Cungi, Camillo, -approximately 1649.

Ariosto, Orazio, 1555-1593.

Castello, Bernardo, 1557?-1629., Illustrator.

Charles Emmanuel, I, Duke of Savoy, 1562-1630., Dedicatee.

Pavoni, Giuseppe, approximately 1551-1641, Printer.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

George Gregory Book Store., Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Gerusalemme liberata. 1617

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100--Poetry.

Godfrey.

Crusades--First, 1096-1099--Poetry.

Crusades.

Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244--Poetry.

Jerusalem.

Genre:

Poems -- 1617.

Physical Description:

[16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. (fol. in 8s)

Other Title:

Gervsalemme di Torqvato Tasso

Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili, e di Giulio Guastauini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti

Place of Publication:

In Genoua, : Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni. Con licensa de superiori, MDCXVII. [1617]

Notes:

Includes 2 engraved title pages and 20 engraved plates (included in pagination); each of the 20 cantos is preceded by full-page copper engraving by Camillo Cungi after Bernardo Castello.

Each "argomento" within ornamental woodcut cartouche.

Engraved title page is followed by an added engraved t.p. bearing title: La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili e di Giulio Guastavini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti; both t.p.'s includes ports.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[dagger]⁴ A-Q⁸ ²A-D⁸ E⁴ ³A-B⁸ C⁴ (rectos of A6, D5, G1, I2, K1, L8, O2 and P2 are blank; verso of Q8 is blank).

Pagination errors: p. 22 and 43 (first sequence) are misnumbered as 2 and 33, respectively.

Signature errors: F2 is missigned as E2.

First published with title: Il Goffredo, 1580--cf. BM.

Dedicated to Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy.

"Tutte le stanze intere, che dall' autore sono state rifiutate in questo libro": p. 245-255.

Colophon: In Genoua. Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni. MDCXVII. Con licenza de' superiori.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Includes index on p. 36 and [4] p. at end.

In verse.

Text printed in double columns.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006) from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy with invoice and receipt of payment from the George Gregory Book Store (Bath, England); also with a remittance memo from the First National Bank of Boston, inscribed: Check mailed Nov. 29, 194,. Lost by enemy action. Duplicate mailed April 8, 1941 (air mail). Received by Gregory Book Store April 25, 1941.

Cited in:

Brunet, 5, col. 666

Grässe, 6-7, p. 33

NUC pre-56, 583, p. 515