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La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso / con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili, e di Giulio Guastauini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Gerusalemme liberata
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
- Crusades.
- Genre:
- Early works
- Poetry
- Epic poetry.
- Physical Description:
- [16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] pages including 20 plates : illustrations (eng. plates) ; 28 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- GERVSALEMME LIBERATA DI TORQVATO TASSO
- Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso figurata da Bernardo Castello a Carlo Emanuello duca di Sauoia
- Gervsalemme di Torqvato Tasso figurata da Bernardo Castello a Carlo Emanvello duca di Savoia
- Place of Publication:
- In Genoua : Stampata per Giuseppe Pauoni ad instanza di Bernardo Castello, l'anno MDCXVII [i.e. 1617]
- Notes:
- "Tutte le stanze intere, che dall'autore sono state rifiutate in questo libro": pages 245-255.
- Added ornamental title page engraved (with portrait of the Duke of Savoy): La Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso figurata da Bernardo Castello a Carlo Emanuello duca di Sauoia. For reproduction, cf. Boffito 12.
- Each "argomento" within ornamental woodcut border.
- Illustrations: 22 full-page copper engravings by Camillo Cungio after Bernardo Castello.--cf. Nagler: Monogrammisten, I, 2376, and Boffilo: Frontespizi, 77.
- Ornamental title page, engraved, with portrait of author; head- and tail-pieces; historiated initials.
- The text is continued on the rectos of 12 plates.
- "Annotationi di Scipio Gentili, nella Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso" and "Luoghi osseruati dal Mag. Giulio Guastauini. I quali il Tasso nella sua Gierusalemm hà presi, & imitati da poeti, & altri scrittori antichi" (caption titles) each begin new pagination and register.
- Colophon at foot of final leaf: In Genoua. Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni. MDCXVII.
- Signatures: pi² [dagger]² 2[dagger]⁴ A-Q⁸ ²A-²D⁸ ²E⁴ ³A-³B⁸ ³C⁴.
- Local Notes:
- RBC 2026 130: Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Forum Auctions, 20 November 2025, Lot 12.Wanting leaf pi1. Front endpaper detached. Binding: full tanned animal skin with blind tooled border. Both boards detached. Red textblock edges.
- OCLC:
- 863364350
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