First edition, octavo, A-H4, I2, bound in modern full russet morocco, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Cicognara 185; Houghton FA 3140.6*; Blunt, Artistic Theory in Italy, pp. 82-85; Schlosser Magnino pp. 239.
Pino was a painter, a contemporary of Titian, and a pupil of Savoldo. He writes at a transitional time in Italian painting, organizing his criticism in the form of a dialogue between two painters, the impoverished Lauro of Venice, and the more successful Fabio of Tuscany.
