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TERRACINA, Laura (ca. 1525-1567) . Discorso sopra tutti li primi canti d'Orlando Furioso. Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1550. Fine woodcut portrait on A2v and 46 woodcuts in the text, woodcut devices on title and final leaf. Second edition. Bongi I-319. [Bound with]:
[LANDI, Ortensio (editor)]. Lettere di molte valorose donne, nelle quali chiaramente appare non esser ne di eloquentia ne di dottrina alli huomini inferiori. Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1548. Woodcut devices on title and verso of penultimate leaf. (Title slightly soiled, outer margins at beginnin very lightly waterstained.) FIRST EDITION. Bongi I-213-214.
2 works in one volume, 8° (165 x 96mm). Near contemporary English panelled calf decorated with a thin roll-tool border (worn, rebacked, upper cover loose). Provenance: 18th-century English armorial bookplate; The Royal Society (stamp on verso of title, the gift of Henry Howard of Norfolk, and release stamp).
The first work, appearing a year after the first edition, is Laura Terracina's poetical conceit on Ariosto's Orlando furioso. The author, a beautful and talented Neapolitan of noble family, was born ca.1525 and died after 1567. Her admirers were legion and her allure was such that after her election to the Accademia Napoletana degli incogniti she was forced to retire 'per salvare la su onestà, insidiata dai colleghi accademici, giovani per la più parte, che avrebber voluta da Febea [her academician name] qualcosa di più sostenziale delle poesie' (Bongi I-228). Of Landi's Lettere di molte valerose donne it is thought he wrote many of them himself.
[LANDI, Ortensio (editor)]. Lettere di molte valorose donne, nelle quali chiaramente appare non esser ne di eloquentia ne di dottrina alli huomini inferiori. Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1548. Woodcut devices on title and verso of penultimate leaf. (Title slightly soiled, outer margins at beginnin very lightly waterstained.) FIRST EDITION. Bongi I-213-214.
2 works in one volume, 8° (165 x 96mm). Near contemporary English panelled calf decorated with a thin roll-tool border (worn, rebacked, upper cover loose). Provenance: 18th-century English armorial bookplate; The Royal Society (stamp on verso of title, the gift of Henry Howard of Norfolk, and release stamp).
The first work, appearing a year after the first edition, is Laura Terracina's poetical conceit on Ariosto's Orlando furioso. The author, a beautful and talented Neapolitan of noble family, was born ca.1525 and died after 1567. Her admirers were legion and her allure was such that after her election to the Accademia Napoletana degli incogniti she was forced to retire 'per salvare la su onestà, insidiata dai colleghi accademici, giovani per la più parte, che avrebber voluta da Febea [her academician name] qualcosa di più sostenziale delle poesie' (Bongi I-228). Of Landi's Lettere di molte valerose donne it is thought he wrote many of them himself.