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Canace, tragedia : alla quale sono aggiunte alcune altre sue compositioni & una apologia, & alcune lettioni in difesa della tragedia / del sig. Sperone Speroni.

Accession number
PML 15460
Creator
Speroni, Sperone, 1500-1588.
Published
Venetia : Presso Giovanni Alberti, 1597.
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
4 prelim. leaves, 253 p. ; 21 cm
Notes
Dedicatory epistle to Alfonso Il d'Este, duke of Ferrara (1558-1597) dated Venice, 26 July, 1597 and signed Ingolfo de' Conti.
Fourth edition--(Brunet V, 488).
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
In verse.
Binding
Red morocco binding in the style of Clovis Eve for Pietro Duodo or Valois de Saint-Rémy. However the wreath with three fleur-de-lis within an oval (both upper and lower covers) is unlike those on other Duodo bindings, and without his motto.
Provenance
Possibly bound for Pietro Duodo, a Venetian statesman, or (Henri de?) Valois de Saint-Rémy in the style of Clovis Eve. From the collections of Salvatore Betri, his name and date (1813) on verso of first fly-leaf; Charles Cousin, with his book-plate and p
Classification
Century
Department