Il libro del cortegiano / del conte Baldesar Castiglione.
1528
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Details
Title
Il libro del cortegiano / del conte Baldesar Castiglione.
Created/published
In Venetia : Nelle case d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea d'Asola suo suocero, MDXXVIII [1528]
Description
[244] p. ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529, author.
Note
First edition.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: *⁴ a-o⁸ p⁶.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: *⁴ a-o⁸ p⁶.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Cited/described in
Kelso, R. English gentleman, 191
Kelso, R. Doctrine for the lady, 190
Kelso, R. Doctrine for the lady, 190
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
BJ1604 .C4 1528 Cage
Folger-specific note
In 18th cent. red morocco with triple gilt fillets forming a panel and frame design. Centerpiece tool is that of a putti holding a shield, bow, and two arrows; gilt title and tooling on spine; gilt turn-ins; marbled endpapers; gilt edges. Bound in are three plates from: Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quatuor... Romae: Hermanni Scheus, 1646. (plates signed by: Johann Friedrich Greuter, Guido Reni, Cornelis Bloemaert, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, and Domenichino). Elaborate monogram bookplate (unidentified) together with a detached shelfmark label in a similar style (housed separately in Curatorial Office). Superscription and signature of Castiglione has been removed and classified as a separate manuscript: X.d.229.