et eorum solutiones in causa illust. dd. Laviniae, Lucretiae et Hippolitae De Porrinis Mutinensium

THE INHERITANCE AND DOWRY OF THREE SISTERS FROM MODENA - NO COPY OUTSIDE ITALY
Folio (262x191 mm). [8], 3-18, [46] pp. Collation: a3, A-P2 Q1 (the leaf Q2, a blank, is missing). On the title page woodcut printer's device of Antonio Baldini (setting sun illuminating the old continent) and a small woodcut vignette. Woodcut historiated initials. The work is printed in an elegant italic type. A good copy.
Rare first edition of this interesting work which analyses the legal case concerning the debated inheritance and dowry of the Modenese sisters Lavinia, Lucrezia and Ippolita De Porrinis.
Vittorio Baldini was an Italian printer and engraver. He began publishing texts in 1576, setting up his printing works opposite the Castello Estense in Ferrara. Baldini probably acquired the printing house from the heirs of Francesco Rossi and Paolo Tortorino. He appears to have begun publishing music with a collection of madrigals entitled Il lauro secco, in which a group of madrigalists paid homage to the beauty and virtuosity of Laura Peverara, a Mantua-born singer and lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Ferrara. Baldini later printed many collections of madrigals, canzonettas, psalms, and motets by leading composers such as Lodovico Agostini, Girolamo Belli, and Bonfilio. Baldini also published books on music and theatre theory, as well as books of legal interest. He used several different imprints: ‘Ducal Printer' until 1597, when the Este family lost the Duchy of Ferrara; thereafter ‘Episcopal or State Printer' and ‘Printer to the Academy of the Intrepidi'. He employed a variety of typographical devices, including a sun (as seen in the present publication), a bell, and a flying Daedalus. Following his death, his daughter Vittoria continued the business until 1622 under the imprint ‘Heirs of Vittorio Baldini'.
Edit16, CNCE50718 and USTC, 807033 (2 copies recorded); A. Cavicchi, Baldini Vittorio, Grove Music Online, Oxford, 2001.