Della Casa, Rime e prose, Venice, 1558, old limp vellum

Giovanni Della Casa

Rime, e prose. Venice: Niccolò Bevilacqua (for Erasmo Gemini), October 1558

4to (223 x 158mm.), woodcut initials, old limp vellum, quire A damaged and repaired, occasional light staining, binding becoming detached from textblock

FIRST EDITION of della Casa's poetry and prose, including his treatise Galateo, a popular and influential manual of manners, written in the early 1550s. It was published for Erasmo Gemini, Cardinal della Casa's secretary, two years after della Casa's death.

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