Description

12mo (132x68 mm). 221, [3 of 7] pp. Lacking the two final blanks. Collation: A-I12 K6(-K5,K6). Printer's device on the title page and at the end. Contemporary vellum, inked title on spine. Inked out manuscript ownership entry on the title page. Some occasional marginal foxing, a good, genuine copy.
Rare second edition (the first was printed in Rome in 1641), dedicated by the typographer Carlo Zenero to Marquis Gregorio Spada, of this little known Baroque novel. Very little is known about the author's life either. Born in Perugia, he was a member of the Accademia degli Insensati and served Cardinal Peretti for a time. He also wrote poems which were either included in contemporary anthologies or remained unpublished (cf. G.B. Vermiglioli, Biografia degli scrittori perugini, Perugia, 1829, II, p. 67).
Michel & Michel, V, p. 67; Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\RAVE\071494; Al Albertazzi, Romanzieri e romanzi del Cinquecento e del Seicento, Bologna, 1891, p. 201.