La Melpomene opera.
Florence, Massi & Landi (1649).
by Alessandro Adimari
5 pp., 103 pp.
Original limp vellum, lacks ties and endpapers
One of a total of six collections of 50 sonnets each, published in Florence between 1637 and 1642 and named after six of the nine Muses.
Good condition, minor toning
Size 6 by 8.5 inches
Text in French

Alessandro Adimari (1579 – 1649) was an Italian Baroque poet and classical scholar.
In his verse he practised both concettismo and the Pindaric mode, as he theorized in his Lettera sopra la poesia ditirambica (1629).

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