Rossi, Niccolò. Discorso sopra un sonetto del Petrarca, che comincia In qual parte del cielo, in qual idea. Verona, Girolamo Discepolo, 1587. In 8° (138 x 98 mm); [16] papers. Typographical mark to title page (small woodworm hole to white margin.) Antique vellum binding , traces of two endpapers (stain to rear plate). Handwritten dedication by Vincenzo Gonzati to Leonardo Trissino. Also in the lot is the first edition of Nicolo Rossi's Discorsi ... around the tragedy of 1590, M. Francesco de' Vieri's Discorsi ... Delle maravigliose opere di Pratolino, & d'amore of 1587, Delle prose volgari di monsignor Giovanni Della Casa of 1759, and a copy with barbs of the Rime del S. Giuliano Goselini of 1588. (7)

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