Florence : For Niccolo Taglini... 1688. Second Edition
4to, Eng. front., 7ff, 545, [3] pp, 19c English tree calf, gilt spine, mor. label, joints cracked, cords sound, one corner dunched. Armorial bookplate of the Vyse family and signature of R.Vyse on front pastedown.
First published in 1676, and innumerable times since, this is one of the great heroi-comic poems of Italian literature, recognised by the Accademia della Crusca among the testi di lingua. Brunet calls the 1st. edition “assez rare”
Reference: Brunet V. 1536 (under Zipoli)