Orlando Furioso / di M. Lodovico Ariosto, tutto ricorretto, et di nuoue figure adornato. Con le annotationi, gli auuertimenti, & le dichiarationi di Ieronimo Ruscelli. La vita dell’ autore descritta dal Signor Giouan Battista Pigna. Gli scontri de’ luoghi mutate dall’ autore doppo la prima impressione. La dichiaratione … fatta da M. Nicolò Eugenico. Di nuouo aggiuntoui li cinque canti, … et una tauola de’ principij di tutte le stanze. … Con privilegio.
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Category
Books
Date
1568
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006582
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 654, [34] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Pencil “53” on front pastedown. Seventeenth-century manuscript “1584” and “1-0- mh/” on front pastedown. Eighteenth-century manuscript “1725 April 23 host” on rear pastedown. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: H Diston bus/ N°. 406. Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on three raised cords with two false spine bands, gilt spine tooling, red and brown sprinkled edges. Spine label missing.
Makers and roles
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), author Girolamo Riscelli (d.c.1565), commentator Giovan Battista Pigna (1529-1575), author Eugenico, Niccolò, commentator