[TURCHI, Nicolò]. La Tavola rotonda. Cena dell'illustriss. Sig. Filippo Guastavillani. Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini, 1639.

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[TURCHI, Nicolò]. La Tavola rotonda. Cena dell'illustriss. Sig. Filippo Guastavillani. Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini, 1639.

4° (200 x 144mm). Woodcut arms of Guastavillani on title, those of the Accademia dei Riaccesi di Bologna on verso of second leaf, 3 folding engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting.) 18th-century Dutch floral gilt wrappers.

On Monday evening, 21 February 1639, Filippo Guastavillani, by all accounts one of the most charming and generous Bolognese gentlemen of his time, invited a large number of the local gentry to a sumptuous dinner accompanied by musical and balletic entertainments on mythological and allegorical themes. Two of the folding plates portray the settings of these entertainments. Vinciana 242 (lacking the plates); Lozzi 551.