Description: Rime Di Cesare Caporali Con l’Oservazioni di Carlo Caporali Dal Medesimo di Nuovo Reviste & accresciute All’ Illustrissimoe Rever. Sig. Monsignor. Givlio Spinola Goeurnatore Generale dell’Umbria, per Sebastiano Zecchini, in Perugia, 359 pp, illustrated title, portrait engraving of Caporali, head and tail pieces, vellum, 5.5 x 3.25”, 32mo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor soiling to vellum. Spine darkened from age with remnants of an old circular sticker present at head. Minor abrasions to surface of vellum. Armorial plate of Wrest Park adhered to pastedown. M.A.B initials written in pencil on fly. Small spot of chipping to top margin of illustrated title. Lightly toned throughout with minor instances of foxing. The occasional age spot throughout. A few small notations in old hand scattered throughout the text. All edges speckled. Binding tight and intact. Nicely preserved. Please see photos. Scarce work of Italian poetry by Renaissance poet Cesare Caporali (1531-1601). Caporali was passionate and known for reading and translating Horace. His works were inspirations for Cervantes’ Viaje al Parnaso. Armorial library bookplate of English Heritage site Wrest Park, a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. The mansion has an early eighteenth-century garden and originally laid out by George London and Henry Wise for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent. In 1736 Horace Walpole visited Wrest on a progress through Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. RAREE1651DOQX
Price: 700 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Vellum
Language: Italian
Author: Cesare Caporali
Publisher: Sebastiano Zecchini
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Renaissance
Original/Facsimile: Original
