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FERRO, Giovanni (1582-1630). Teatro d'imprese. Parte prima [-seconda]. Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1623.
2 parts in one volume, 2º (320 x 221mm). Half-title, engraved titles by Gaspare Grispoldi, engraved portraits of Maffeo Barberini, the dedicatee, and the author, one full-page dedicatory plate containing 16 devices, 451 engraved devices in text, publisher’s device on colophon. (A few marginal repairs, Rr5v and Rr6r with scattered stains, without final blank.) Late 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine, marbled pastedowns (spine repaired, minor defects to covers, one corner bumped, free endpapers lacking). Provenance: erased stamp on half-title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Cardinal Maffeo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII on 4 August 1623. He shared with his nephews a profound interest in symbolic images, one which Ferro’s book was clearly intended to nourish. His own emblems, particularly the ubiquitous bees, were frequently reproduced, and the Pope’s arms even formed part of the symbolic complex on the engraved title to Gaileo’s Saggiatore (Rome, 1623). Ferro’s work was swelled in size by indexes taking up eighty-eight leaves, one index refering to over 4000 mottoes. Victor Coelho, Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, Dordrecht, 1992, pp. 77-78; Landwehr, Romanic, 295.
2 parts in one volume, 2º (320 x 221mm). Half-title, engraved titles by Gaspare Grispoldi, engraved portraits of Maffeo Barberini, the dedicatee, and the author, one full-page dedicatory plate containing 16 devices, 451 engraved devices in text, publisher’s device on colophon. (A few marginal repairs, Rr5v and Rr6r with scattered stains, without final blank.) Late 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine, marbled pastedowns (spine repaired, minor defects to covers, one corner bumped, free endpapers lacking). Provenance: erased stamp on half-title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Cardinal Maffeo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII on 4 August 1623. He shared with his nephews a profound interest in symbolic images, one which Ferro’s book was clearly intended to nourish. His own emblems, particularly the ubiquitous bees, were frequently reproduced, and the Pope’s arms even formed part of the symbolic complex on the engraved title to Gaileo’s Saggiatore (Rome, 1623). Ferro’s work was swelled in size by indexes taking up eighty-eight leaves, one index refering to over 4000 mottoes. Victor Coelho, Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, Dordrecht, 1992, pp. 77-78; Landwehr, Romanic, 295.
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