1617 TORQUATO TASSO La Gerusalemme liberata AMAZINGLY ILLUSTRATED antique FOLIO
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1617 TORQUATO TASSO La Gerusalemme liberata AMAZINGLY ILLUSTRATED antique FOLIO

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[CHIVALRIC POEM]. TASSO Torquato (1544-1595)La Gerusalemme liberataGenoa: Giuseppe Pavoni for Bernardo Castello;  1617 Fully illustrated with splendid full page engravings by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco after Bernardo Castello (total 19 (of 20) plates plus engraved title)Small folio: 8 by 11 1/3"  Engraved title-page:With portrait of Torquato Tasso, bust, facing front, wearing a laurel crown; within an oval pendant, lettered “TOROVATO […] TASSO EF”, suspended from a pediment, beneath which a view of Genoa is flanked by two columns, and above is a tablet, lettered: “LA GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA | DI TORQUATO | TASSO. | Con le annotazioni | di Scipion | Gentili, e di Givlio | Guastauini , | Et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti , | STAMPATA | Per Giuseppe Pauoni ad instanza di | Bernardo Castello,in Genova | L’Anno MDCXVII.”Engraved plates at the start of each canto, vignettes and headpieces (missing +2 and +4 v* with engraved dedication to Savoy and a leaf of sonnets to Tasso) old rep

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