Orlando Furioso / di Messer Ludovico Ariosto con la giunta, nouissimamente stampato e corretto. ; Con una Apologia di M. Lodouico Dolcio contra di detrattori dell’ autore, … Hassi la concessione del Senato Veneto per anni diece.
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Category
Books
Date
1540
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030436
Summary
Bibliographic description
244, [10] leaves : ill. (woodcut), port. ; 8vo. Annotated in a tiny sixteenth-century? hand. Provenance: sixteenth-century manuscript inscription on titlepage: Je Cailly Courvey [Je Cailly repeated on final leaf]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards (rebacked), double blind fillet on covers, remains of red painted edges.
Makers and roles
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), author Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568), author