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EPICURO, MARCANTONIO. Di Tre Ciechi Dialogo Bellitissimo. Title within woodcut architectural border. [24] leaves, including last leaf, blank except for woodcut device on verso. 8vo, 153x91 mm, brown levant gilt by Riviere, front joint partly cracked and front cover slightly warped; dampstain in upper outer corners, scattered light foxing. (Venice: Niccolò d'Aristotile, detto Zoppino), 1530
Third or fourth(?) edition of a popular verse drama later retitled Cecaria about 3 men made blind by love. Subsequent editions add an epilogue called Luminaria in which their sight is restored by a priest of Love. No copy located of the 1525 edition cited by Gamba 1376 and other sources as the first. Sander 1659.
