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(MANUSCRIPT.) Pazzi, Antonio de'. Batrachomyomachia. Battaglia di Topi, e di Rane di Homero in lingua Toscana.manuscript in italian on paper, written in cursive script in brown ink. [28] leaves, the last 9 blank. 222x148 mm, early 19th-century russia gilt with unidentified arms on front cover and monogram on rear cover, restoration at top and bottom of spine, front joint partly cracked; light to moderate foxing. Italy, 18th century?
Transcription of an ottava rima version of the pseudo-Homeric mock epic on a war between frogs and mice. A member of the noble Pazzi family of Florence and a Knight of Jerusalem, Antonio de' Pazzi was a poet active in the later 16th century whose writings seem to have remained in manuscript apart from an edition of the Batrachomyomachia published in 1820. Negri, Istoria degli Scrittori Fiorentini, page 66.
