No. 89419205

Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio - Le fiamme di Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio nobile ferrarese. Diviso in due parti. - 1548
No. 89419205

Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio - Le fiamme di Giovanbattista Gilardi Cinthio nobile ferrarese. Diviso in due parti. - 1548
Full brown leather binding with decorated gold edges. 5 raised bands, gold ornaments, and a gold title in a red box on the spine. Red splash cuts.
1 white card, 87 non-numbered cards, 1 white card
Rare first edition of this love poem by G.B. Giraldi Cinzio (1504-1573). Although published by a skilled and prestigious publisher like Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, Giraldi's Fiamme seems to remain an isolated literary fact, entirely from Ferrara: not only does it appear that there is no trace of manuscript circulation either before or after the printing, but Giraldi's poetry hardly appears at all in the lyrical anthologies that proliferate after 1545.
Copy in good condition internally. Some stains and a small faded mark on the lower margin that does not touch the text from p. 7 to p. 17. Ex libris on the first endpaper, Giolitian typographic mark on the title page, and a beautiful inhabited woodcut initial at the beginning of part one. Usable and complete.
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