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TASSO Torquato – Discorsi Dell’arte Poetica (+ 4) – 1587

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TASSO Torquato – Discorsi Dell’arte Poetica (+ 4) – 1587

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TASSO Torquato – Discorsi del Signor Torquato Tasso. Dell’arte poetica; et in particolare del Poema Heroico. Et insieme il primo libro delle lettere scritte a diversi suoi amici, le quali oltra la famigliarità, sono ripiene di molti concetti, & avertimenti poetici à dichiaratione d’alcuni luoghi della sua Gierusalemme liberata. Gli uni, e l’altre scritte nel tempo, ch’egli compose detto suo Poema. Non piu stampati – 1587. I Venetia ad instanza di Giulio Vassalini Libraro à Ferrara (BOUND WITH:) / Il Messaggiero dialogo del Signor Torquato Tasso al Sereniss. Sign. Vincenzo Gonzaga Principe di Mantova, et di Monferrato – 1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli (BOUND WITH:) / Discorso della Virtù Heroica, et della Charità del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Al Sereniss. Sig. Monsig. il Cardinale Cesareo – 1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli (BOUND WITH:) / Discorso della Virtù Feminile, e Donnesca, del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Alla Serenissima Sig. Duchessa di Mantova, et c. – 1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli (BOUND WITH:) / Il Gonzaga secondo, overo del Giuoco, Dialogo del signor Torquato Tasso – 1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli. Rigid half parchment with handwritten titles on the spine, boards covered in decorated paper; octavo, 19.8 cm; 5 volumes bound in a single one; leaves (1b) (4) 108, (2) 36, 10, 8, 20; slight damages at paper that covers the fronts, very fresh interiors, only a few slight halo and a couple of browned pages at Il Messaggiero (whose title page is the only slightly flowery leaf), overall more than a good copy. Old manuscript ex libris on the endpaper, each title page with woodcut mark, woodcut heads and initials, some handwritten glosses in the margins. Curious volume that collects some of the "minor" works by Tasso, albeit all worthy of note. In fact, this is the first edition of the treatise on Poetic Art which also contains an epistolary of him; of the first edition of the Messenger, that is, a Platonic-inspired dialogue on the essence of spirits and demons; of the first edition of the Discourse of Virtu Heroica, an attempt to curry favor with Cardinal Albert of Austria, hoping for his intercession in order to put an end to his imprisonment; of the first edition of the Discourse of Feminine Virtue, which also set itself as an end an ingratiation to obtain freedom; and of the first definitive edition of Il Gonzaga second, a pleasant booklet on games

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