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TRISSINO, Giovanni Giorgio (1478-1550). La Italia liberata da Gotthi. Volume I: Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, May 1547; Volumes II & III: Venice: Tolommeo Janicolo da Bressa, October 1548.
3 volumes in 1, 8° (160 x 100mm.). Each volume with final blanks. Title to volume I with woodcut border, the border repeated around the woodcut device of Trissino at the end of volumes II and III, one folding plan, one folding map. Contemporary limp vellum, g.e.
A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the first great heroic epic poem of the 16th century. Volume II has a variant (and earlier?) setting of the final gathering: the two copies recorded by Adams collate Zz10 (with Zz10 a blank), this copy collates Zz8 (Zz7 blank) followed by an unsigned gathering of two leaves mounted
on a single stub. The October 1548 date on the colophon (November 1548 in the Adams copies) would confirm that this copy is an early issue. Begun in 1526 the poem relates in 27 books the story of the invasion of Italy by the Goths and the successful defence of Rome in 541 by Justinian's general, Belisarius. Trissino, a Vicentine nobleman and humanist, was also the friend and patron of Palladio; indeed Palladio took his name from an angel in book V of this work. The use of the Greek letters epsilon and omega to distinguish the open from the closed pronunciation of e and o reflect Trissino's wish to reform Italian orthography. Cf. Adams T-954.
3 volumes in 1, 8° (160 x 100mm.). Each volume with final blanks. Title to volume I with woodcut border, the border repeated around the woodcut device of Trissino at the end of volumes II and III, one folding plan, one folding map. Contemporary limp vellum, g.e.
A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the first great heroic epic poem of the 16th century. Volume II has a variant (and earlier?) setting of the final gathering: the two copies recorded by Adams collate Zz10 (with Zz10 a blank), this copy collates Zz8 (Zz7 blank) followed by an unsigned gathering of two leaves mounted
on a single stub. The October 1548 date on the colophon (November 1548 in the Adams copies) would confirm that this copy is an early issue. Begun in 1526 the poem relates in 27 books the story of the invasion of Italy by the Goths and the successful defence of Rome in 541 by Justinian's general, Belisarius. Trissino, a Vicentine nobleman and humanist, was also the friend and patron of Palladio; indeed Palladio took his name from an angel in book V of this work. The use of the Greek letters epsilon and omega to distinguish the open from the closed pronunciation of e and o reflect Trissino's wish to reform Italian orthography. Cf. Adams T-954.