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Vincentius Mantuanus [aka Vincenzo Barsio] (c. 1490-1529) Silvia Alba Labyrinthus. Parma: Franciscus Ugoletus, 1519.
Quarto, very rare Parma imprint dedicated to Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1500-1540), and Parma physician Georgius Anselmus (d. 1528); text in roman letter throughout, bound in later full parchment over boards; with occasional attractive contemporary marginalia and underlining; 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Worldcat locates three copies in libraries worldwide; Rare Book Hub lists one auction sale in 1925.
Barsio was a Carmelite friar who was also a frequent guest in the courts of the Marquis Gonzaga and his mother Isabella d'Este, the dedicatee of Silvia. These three poems seem to be all he has left behind.
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