ARIOSTE (Lodovico Ariosto, known as the). Orlando furioso. Venice, Nella Stamperia di Stefano Orlandini, 1730. 2 volumes in-folio, vellum, yellow and red speckled edges (Binding of the time). REMARKABLE AND VERY LUXURIOUS EDITION, illustrated with a beautiful portrait of the author engraved on copper by C. Orsolini and 51 (46 + 5) large figures by Gulian Giampicoli and Guiseppe Filosi in frames decorated with allegorical figures, cherubs, trophies, medals, etc. The second volume includes Ariosto's theater, which opens with a woodcut title-frontispiece with architectural decoration. Incomplete with the false title and title of volume I, as well as the copper-engraved title-frontispiece of volume II. Small wetness in the lower margin of a few leaves, minor repair without gravity to plate XXXXVI.

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