Ludovico Ariosto - Comedia di Lodovico Ariosto intitolata Gli Soppositi - 1525

Excellent 19th-century parchment binding with gold titles on two panels on the spine, made of red and blue Morocco leather, with gilded decorations.

1 blank card, 56 unnumbered artworks, 2 blank cards.

Third edition of this comedy by Ariosto. Derived from classical models (Terence, Plautus), the comedy was composed in 1509, the year of its first printing, and performed in 1519. In 1524, the second edition was published in Rome, actually claimed as the third after a fictional Sienese edition of 1523, cited by some bibliographers but of which no copy has ever been seen. Both the first and the 1524 Roman editions contain errors, while this 1525 edition is certainly not a typographical copy of the first two and appears to be more carefully printed.

Title within a beautiful woodcut architectural frame, typographic mark at the end, text in italics. A fine example, excellently preserved.

Very rare