Ariosto (Lodovico): Orlando Furioso, tutto ricorretto et di nuove figure adornato, con le annotationi di Girolamo Ruscelli, la Vita dell' Autore descritta dal Signor Battista Pigna, Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562, thick 4to, sixth Valgrisi edition, title within architectural border containing portrait of Ariosto and Valgrisi's serpent device, 46 full-page woodcuts with borders of figures and grotesques, cherub borders for the 'argomento' to each canto, historiated and arabesque initials, printer's device on colophon leaf (some light fingersoiling, occasional minor repairs), 18th-century half vellum (free endpapers wormed) [Agnelli-Ravegnani I, 118; Brunet I, 434; Index Aureliensis 107.503; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 29]

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Ariosto (Lodovico): Orlando Furioso, tutto ricorretto et di nuove figure adornato, con le annotationi di Girolamo Ruscelli, la Vita dell' Autore descritta dal Signor Battista Pigna, Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562, thick 4to, sixth Valgrisi edition, title within architectural border containing portrait of Ariosto and Valgrisi's serpent device, 46 full-page woodcuts with borders of figures and grotesques, cherub borders for the 'argomento' to each canto, historiated and arabesque initials, printer's device on colophon leaf (some light fingersoiling, occasional minor repairs), 18th-century half vellum (free endpapers wormed) [Agnelli-Ravegnani I, 118; Brunet I, 434; Index Aureliensis 107.503; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 29]

拍品專文

Valgrisi's blocks are the first full page illustrations for Ariosto, and correspond to those in the 1556 edition with small variants. Ruscelli explains to the reader the application of the rules of perspective to the multiple scenes in the cuts which are in the instructive tradition of the Marcolini Dante, with the upper part of the block often becoming a map, offering a tour of the canto by hippogryph.