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Italian Poetry - 17thc And 18thc:

Conti, Giusto de . LA BELLA MANO
Verona 1753 Presso Giannalberto Tumermani. Poetry in Italian. Conti lived approx 1720-1790. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 392pp., frontispiece engraved illustration, vignette on title, 3/4 vellum. Two short handwritten notes in text. One institution stamp on internal text page. Good, front blank end page detaching, vellum rubbed and worn, outer front hinge beginning to crack along top edge. (a11223)
$300.00Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547) (Bembi). DE GLIASOLANI DI M. PIETRO BEMBO NEGVALI SI RAGIONA D'AMORE
Stampati in Viegia per Giouanantonio & i Fratelli da Sabbio 1530. Edition Seconda. Second edition of the most famous work by Bembo (1st 1505), who was noted for restoring classic tradition in Italian literature. In Italian. Small octavo, 214pp., later rebinding in full leather with faint gilt edging and mounted black spine label. Two bookplates (Ioannis Bizzarro and Walter Raleigh c.1925). Small stamp of Bibliotheca Heberiana. Good, moderate overall wear, a few lines of ink notes on end papers. Rare. (a41745)
$1500.00 (anon) . RACCOLTA DI LEGGIADRISSIME CANZONETTE ANACREONTICHE SOPRA DIVERSI SOGGETTI ALL'ILLUSTRISSIMA SIGNORA ELISABETTA CIAPPELLONI NE' RICCI
Livorno 1752 first edition. Gio. Paolo Fantechi. In Italian. Unusual collection of poetry, several poems of which are on gastronomic topics such as chocolate tobacco and fish. La Cioccolata a Fille by Pietro Metastasio (pp. i-v) is listed in Lord Westbury's Handlist of Italian Cookery Books as appearing in 1783 so this 1752 considerably earlier. Nestis Il Tabacco a Clori Cantata and other poems by Medesimo including La Pesca' (xli-xliv); Occhi di Bella Donna' del Marcantonio PIndemonte; other poems by Antonio Conti, Innocenzo Frugoni (La Rosa), Gio Battista Ricchieri, Tirsi Lecasio, Pompeo Figari Geneovese (Riso e Pianto), Lorenzo Magalotti Fiorentino Vivanda Inglese Nominata Contento (lxxi-lxxvii); Jacopo Antonio Bunofanti. Small Octavo, 82pp., plain wraps (contemporary pigskin?). VG. Very scarce. (a61021)
$690.00Baruffaldi, Girolamo. RIME SCELTE DE' POETI FERRARESI, ANTICHI, E MODERNI . AGGIUNTEVI NEL FINE ALCUNE DREVI NOTIZIE ISTORISCHE INTORNO AD ESSI
Ferrara 1713 first edition. Pergli Eredi di Bernardino Pomatelli Imr. Episc. Hardcover. In Italian. Octavo, (34), 608pp., title page engraving, 3/4 vellum with original attractive blue and tan patterned boards, mounted leather spine label, rouged fore-edges. Monastery stamp on title page and verso. Good, about 100 pages have light stain, cover somewhat worn, spine label chipped, some chipping of vellum on spine. (a64716)
$1700.00Bongiovanni, Pellegra. RISPOSTE A NOME DI MADONNA LAURA ALLE RIME DI MESSER FRANCESCO PETRARCA IN VITA DELLA MEDESIMA COMPOSTE DA PELLEGRA BONGIOVANNI
Roma 1762 Presso Benedetto Franzesi. Poetry in Italian. Small octavo, xix, 339pp.,vignette on title page, original full vellum. Old owner signature on end paper. Small monastery stamp on title page and verso. Good, occasional light foxing, spine ends frayed, inside front cover and first end papers wormed, heel of spine chipped. (a64995)
$300.00Berni, Francesco, M. Bino, M. Lodovico Martelli, Mattio Franzese, dell'Aretino e di diversi Autori. DELL'OPERE BURLESCHE 3 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
Londra 1723. Poetry, in Italian. 3 hardcover volumes. 12mo., 194pp., 332pp., 384p., (63), woodcut illustration on title page, original brown paper covered boards. One page of contemporary ink notation on front blank end paper first volume. Good, boards worn on all edges, spine of third volume chipped. 3 volume set. Scarce. (a65074)
$650.00 Accademia degli Arcadi, Rome . I GIUOCHI OLIMPICI CELEBRATI IN ARCADIA NELL' INGRESSO DELL' OLIMPIADE DCXXXIII IN ONORE DEGLI ARCADI ILLUSTRI DEFUNTI
Roma 1754 Presso Venanzio Monaldini per Gereroso Salomoni. In Italian. 12mo., xi, (1), 360pp., circular engraving on title page of victor wreath encircling a pipe flute, numerous vignettes and tailpieces throughout, full vellum. VG, spine label chipped on edges. (a79090)
$265.00 Aluigi, Marc Antonio . STORIA DELL' ABATE PIETRO TRAPASSI METASTASIO POETA DRAMMATICO
Asisi 1783 Ottavio Sgariglia. In Italian. Hardcover. Octavo, 173pp., fine fullpage copperplate frontis portrait of Mestastasio, bordered title page with wreath and two musical instruments in center, original paper covered boards with vellum spine and mounted leather spine label. Two old ink signatures, stamp of monastery on title page and mounted paper name label on verso. VG, slight amount of light foxing on a few pages, may lack one front free blank. Scarce. (a79108)
$500.00