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STROZZI, Giulio. La Venetia edificata, poema eroico ... con gli argomenti del sig. Francesco Cortesi. Venice: Antonio Pinelli, 1624.
2°. Fine engraved title with an inset bird's eye view of Venice, engraved full-page portrait of Strozzi, both engraved by Valesius, 2 further portraits of Attila and Flavius Aetius and 24 full-page engraved illustrations in the text, woodcut device on last page. (Top margins lightly waterstained at the beginning.) Later vellum.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of one of best poems of the 17th century, Strozzi's verse epic narrating the history of the first years of the city of Venice and the wars against Attila and including within a mass of legend and folklore. The first edition of 1621 comprised only the first twelve books. BL 17th-Century Italian II, p. 882; Vinciana 2853.
2°. Fine engraved title with an inset bird's eye view of Venice, engraved full-page portrait of Strozzi, both engraved by Valesius, 2 further portraits of Attila and Flavius Aetius and 24 full-page engraved illustrations in the text, woodcut device on last page. (Top margins lightly waterstained at the beginning.) Later vellum.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of one of best poems of the 17th century, Strozzi's verse epic narrating the history of the first years of the city of Venice and the wars against Attila and including within a mass of legend and folklore. The first edition of 1621 comprised only the first twelve books. BL 17th-Century Italian II, p. 882; Vinciana 2853.