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Delle rime. Parte Prima. [- Parte Seconda].
Di novo dal medesimo in questa nuoua impressione ordinate, corrette, accresciute, & date in luce.
Brescia, Pietro Maria Marchetti; 1592-1593
2 parts in 1 volume.
7 leaves, 341 pp.; 4 leaves, 194 pp., 2 leaves.
With woodcut printer's mark on the title.
Original vellum binding, manuscript title and date (1592) to the ribbed spine.
Torquato Tasso's (1544-1595) revised and expanded collection of poems from the late Renaissance.
With period sepia marginalia on the title page. Occasionally foxed.
Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/3 inches
Text in Italian
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Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.
Tasso had mental illness and died a few days before he was to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by Pope Clement VIII.
His work was widely translated and adapted, and until the beginning of the 20th century, he remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe.
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1592 POETRY by TORQUATO TASSO antique vellum bound 16th CENTURY
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