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MANZINI, LUIGI. Il Dragone di Macedonia, estinto sotto il Governo di Assuero Artaserse, Il Grande, Re de' Persi, e de' Medi. [16], 214, [2] pages, including half-title and engraved allegorical additional title by Giovanni Battista Coriolano depicting slain dragon. 4to, 214x148 mm, contemporary stiff wrappers, worn and shaken, with slight damage to bottom of backstrip; occasional soiling, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered small dark stains, indistinct early stamp in lower margin of half-title. Bologna: Gio. Battista Feroni, 1643
first edition of a baroque prose adaptation of the biblical story of Esther. The title alludes to Mordecai's prophetic dream of the fight between 2 dragons (symbolizing him and his nemesis Haman the Macedonian) in the apocryphal additions to Esther. Piantanida 3253. OCLC locates several copies in European libraries, only the Newberry and University of Toronto copies in North America.
