1590 1st Illustrated ed Tasso Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata
“All he regarded; but in Syria most,
He mark’d the leaders of the Christian host:
That eye, whose penetrating glances dart
To each deep secret of the human heart”
– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, canto I
Originally written in 1575, Torquato Tasso’s famous “Jerusalem Delivered” tells a mythical story of the First Crusade complete with Christian Knights battling Muslim warriors. This 1590 printing of Tasso is one of the earliest and is the first edition to include illustrations. This impressive and highly desirable edition includes annotations by Scipio Gentili and Giulio Guastavini which have separate registers.
1590 1st Illustrated ed Tasso Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata
“All he regarded; but in Syria most,
He mark’d the leaders of the Christian host:
That eye, whose penetrating glances dart
To each deep secret of the human heart”
– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, canto I
Originally written in 1575, Torquato Tasso’s famous “Jerusalem Delivered” tells a mythical story of the First Crusade complete with Christian Knights battling Muslim warriors. This 1590 printing of Tasso is one of the earliest and is the first edition to include illustrations. This impressive and highly desirable edition includes annotations by Scipio Gentili and Giulio Guastavini which have separate registers.
Item number: #13725
Price: $2750
TASSO, Torquato
La Gierusalemme liberata
Genova : [Bartoli], 1590. First edition.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- 11, [1], 100, 201-208, 109-255, [1], 71, [1], 40, [8]
- (pagination errors expected of this edition)
- 21 full-page engravings
- By Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco, after B. Castello
- References: USTC 858410; Adams T 243
- Language: Italian
- Binding: Leather; tight & secure
- Size: ~9.5in X 7in (24cm x 18cm)
- Exceedingly rare and valuable
- 11, [1], 100, 201-208, 109-255, [1], 71, [1], 40, [8]
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13725
Categories
Classical Greco-Roman
Literature
Authors
TASSO, Torquato
Printing Date
16th Century
Language
Italian
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete
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