Tasso, La Gierusalemme liberata, Genoa, 1590, later calf
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Torquato Tasso
La Gierusalemme liberata... con le figure di Bernardo Castello, e le annotationi di Scipio Gentili, e di Giulio Guastavini. Genoa: (Girolamo Bartoli), 1590
4to (250 x 178mm.), engraved architectural title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, full-page engraved illustrations by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci after Castello, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, binding rubbed, joints cracked
The first illustrated edition of Tasso, and the first to contain the commentary of Gentili and Guastavini.
LITERATURE:
Edit16 30894; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 494