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RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO. Tre Discorsi di Girolamo Ruscelli à M. Lodovico Dolce. 287 pages. 4to, 19th-century vellum with painted panel in colors and gold on front cover depicting the printer's device in center, view of fortress at top, and cartouche with place and date of publication at bottom, calligraphic spine title in ink; blank upper margin of title darkened, contents otherwise clean. Signature of Dr. Federico Bauer dated 1935 on front free endpaper; bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck. Venice: (Plinio Pietrasanta), 1553
first edition of a collection of three discourses addressed to Lodovico Dolce, with whom Ruscelli feuded over their competing editions of the Decameron. The first deals with the latter work, the second with the Italian language, and the third with the translation by Dolce of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Adams R959.
