Il Palmerino di M. Lodovico Dolce

Formato: in quarto

4to (214x148 mm). 137, [1] leaves. Collation: A-Q⁸ R¹⁰. Title page within an elaborate architectural woodcut frame, woodcut vignette at the beginning of the first book, woodcut decorative initials and headpieces. Early 19^th-century marbled boards, gilt spine with morocco lettering piece (spine worn and rubbed). On the front flyleaf manuscript ownership entries: “1810 di Francesco Testa vicentino” and below “Leonardo Trissino 13 ottobre 1834. dono di Francesco Testa”. Small hole to the title page affecting the frame, another repaired hole on the lower outer corner with no loss, margins of ll. 5-8 shorter, some browning and staining, small worm holes and track to the margin of a few leaves.

First edition of the Italian translation in octaves of this chivalry poem on the adventures of Palmerín de Oliva.

Adams, D-749; Edit 16, CNCE17370; G. Melzi-P.A. Tosi, Bibliografia dei romanzi di cavalleria in versi e in prosa italiani, Milano, 1865, p. 136; A. Cutolo, I romanzi cavallereschi in prosa e in rima del Fondo Castiglioni presso la Biblioteca Braidense di Milano, Milano, 1944, 102.

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