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RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO. Tre discorsi di Girolamo Ruscelli à M.Lodovico Dolce. 287 pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 vellum; minor spotting on title. 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.
