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BRUSONI, Girolamo (c. 1614-1686). Vita di Ferrante Pallavicino. Venice: Turrini, 1655.
12o (146 x 85 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Late 19th-century green morocco gilt, by Lortic. Provenance: Charles Butler of Warren Wood Hartfield (bookplate).
Girolamo Brusoni was an intimate friend of Ferrante Pallavicino. He became one of the protagonists of libertinism as preached and practiced by the members of the Venetian "Academi Incognito." However, Pallavicino's horrible fate (he was beheaded in 1644) frightened him into abandoning the free-thinking tendencies of his writings. At the end is a listing of the published and prohibited works of Pallavicino.
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Girolamo Brusoni was an intimate friend of Ferrante Pallavicino. He became one of the protagonists of libertinism as preached and practiced by the members of the Venetian "Academi Incognito." However, Pallavicino's horrible fate (he was beheaded in 1644) frightened him into abandoning the free-thinking tendencies of his writings. At the end is a listing of the published and prohibited works of Pallavicino.