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Et a chi di loro si debba la palma nell'heroico poema.
(Comparison of Homer, Virgil and Torquato Tasso.
And to which of them is due the palm in the heroic poem)
by PAOLO BENI
Padova; 1607
Size 6 1/4 by 8 1/4"
[4], 320, [4] pp.
Woodcut printer's device repeated at the title page and colophon.
Original full vellum, good condition. Some wear.
First edition of the "Comparatione between Homer, Virgil and Tasso", «which remains among the most exemplary documents of the new state of mind of revolt against tradition that is now about to invest the whole of seventeenth-century culture»
(Beni Paolo in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 8). Piantanida , 3765; Fontanini I, 354.
Text in Italian
Reserve: $449.00
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1607 COMPARATIONE DI HOMERO VIRGILIO e TORQUATO by PAOLO BENI antique
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Ink of Ages: 15th-19th Century Antique Books
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