Literary Texts in Italian -- Tasso (Torquato): Il Messagiero dialogo, Venice, appresso Bernardo Giunti, 1582, 4to, first edition, title with Venetian arms (some dampstains), modern calf-backed boards; Discorso della Virtu Feminile, e Donnesca, Venice, Bernardo Giunti, 1582, 4to, Venetian arms on title (dampstains, B2 torn with loss of one character on verso), modern boards; Aminta, Favola Boscareggia, Glasgow, Roberto ed Andrea Foulis, 1753, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Le Clerc 19th-century green morocco, gilt [Gamba, Poemi, 948; Gaskell 266] -- Romei (Annibale): Discorsi, di nuovo ristampati, Pavia, per Andrea Viani, 1591, 8vo (inner margin of title adhering to front free endpaper, middle leaves wormed at inner margins with slight loss of text), 18th century vellum -- Sabadino degli Arienti (Giovanni): Porretane, Novelle Settantana, Verona, Antonio Putelleto, 1540, 8vo, Putelleto's scorpion device on title and final leaf (some heavy soiling), 19th century blue morocco, gilt (joints rubbed) -- Salio (Giuseppe): La Penelope, Tragedia, Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1724, arms of Padua on final leaf, modern calf-backed boards; and 11 others, published 1535-1827. (17)