Orlando innamorato [...]. Insieme con i tre libri di M. Nicolò de Gli Agostini. Novamente stampato, e ricorretto, con nuovi argomenti, allegorie, & figure ad ogni canto [...].

Venice, brothers F. & A. Zoppini, 1584

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4to: [4]-438 ff. (dampstaining, sm. marg. wormtracks, occ. staining).

Contemp. limp vellum, ink titled flat spine (loose).

Rare edition of Boiardo's famous chivalric poem (1st complete ed.: 1495) illustrated with 103 woodcut in-text ill., some within very elaborated orn. frames, and vignette on title. Text in 2 col. The poet Boiardo (1440-1494) was at the service of the Dukes of Ferrara.
Ref. EDIT16 6628. - Not in Adams, STC Italian, Gamba (other ed.), Mortimer.
Prov. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716), Scottish writer and politician (ms. mention; ref. Willems, Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, 1999, p. 37).