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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.
Contributor:
Pavoni, Giuseppe, approximately 1551-1641, printer.
Ariosto, Orazio, 1555-1593, commentator for written text.
Gentili, Scipione, 1563-1616, commentator for written text.
Guastavini, Giulio, active 16th century, commentator for written text.
Castello, Bernardo, 1557?-1629, engraver, publisher.
Cungi, Camillo, -approximately 1649, engraver.
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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