FOLENGO TEOFILO Opus Merlini Cocaii [pseud] 1572

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[FOLENGO, TEOFILO.] Opus Merlini Cocaii [pseud.] poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum. 26 woodcut text illustrations, including repeats. 541, [8] pages. 12mo, old vellum, spine darkened, book block loose in binding; margins cropped affecting sidenotes throughout, text on page 189 inked over. Venice: Jacobus Simbenius, 1572

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Illustrated edition of the best-known 16th-century work of macaronic verse, blending Latin and Italian for comic effect. Wilkins, pages 205-07.