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VIDA, Marcus Hieronymus. Il sileno dialogo ... nel quale si discorre della felicit de'mortali, & si conclude, che tra tutte le cose di questo mondo l'amante fruisca solo la vera, & perfetta beatudine humana. Insieme con le sue rime, & conclusioni amorose, Vicenza: appresso Giorgio Greco a[d] instanza di Alciato de'Alciati, & Pietro Bertelli, [1589] [bound with:] Marcus Hieronymus VIDA. Poetica ... d'heroici latini, in versi toschi sciolti traportata, da M. Nicolo Mutoni, [Venice: Giovanni Griffo, ?1550]. 2 works in one volume, 8, woodcut device on each title, with the 2 final blanks and woodcut initials in first work (repair to verso of title of the first work affecting one letter of the imprint, lacking final blank in the second work, repaired worming in upper margins of second work occasionally affecting one letter of headline, some light dampstaining throughout), 18th-century vellum, labels (labels chipped). Provenance: William Graves, bookplate. FIRST EDITION of the first work and FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of De arte poetica (first published in 1527).