PINDEMONTE, Giovanni Panegirico della cicala di Anacreonte, overo Il ritratto del savio stoico [...]. Verona G.B. Merlo [1673] 4to: [32 incl. front.]-440 pp.; 1 pl. (sm. marg. (damp)staining, stronger marg. staining at f. [8], occ. sl. foxing, wormtrack in some lower margins of Bb, a good copy otherwise). Contemp. vellum, ink-titled flat spine (wormholes in spine, sm. stains on lower cover). First and only edition of a philosophical treatise based on the ode "On the cicada" by Anacreon. The Marquis Pindemonte revisited in this work some of his youthful and unpublished writings from the time when he was a member of the Accademia degli Spensierati in Padua. Illustrated with a copper-engr. frontispiece and a plate depicting the emblems of the Accademia. Ref. STC Italy (BL) 688.

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