BOIARDO, Matteo Maria Orlando innamorato [...], insieme co i tre libri di Nicolo De Gli Agostini, nuovamente riformato per Messer Lodovico Domenichi. Con gli argomenti, e le figure di nuovo accommodate al principio di ogni canto, et la tavola di ciò, che nell'opra si contiene. Venice Comin da Trino 1553 Sm. 4to: 244 ff. (sl. soiling, f. 2 loose, wormtracks to first ff. with some minor loss of text). Later half mottled sheep, spr. paper covers, gilt-ruled spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (rubbed, flylvs missing, wormholes to spine, head def.). Rare edition of Boiardo's famous chivalric poem (1st complete ed.: 1495), edited by Lodovico Domenichi. Illustrated with Boiardo's portrait on title, 69 woodcuts in-text and many initial letters, of which 62 fig. cities (incl. repeats). Text in 2 col. The poet Boiardo (1440-1494) was at the service of the Dukes of Ferrara. However Comin da Trino was one of the most active printers in 16th-c. Venice, nothing is known for sure about his life. Some say he was the cousin of Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari but there is no proof to affirm this. Ref. EDIT16 6616. - STC Italian p. 114. - Not in Adams, Gamba (other ed.), Mortimer. Prov. George Hamilton Seymour (1797-1880), British diplomat (bookpl.).