In quarto (215x150 mm). Signated A-Z4, AA4; 1 unnumbered page, 95 numbered pages, pages 91–92 repeated and incorrectly numbered, 1 unnumbered page. Text in octave rhyme in two columns in elegant cursive; copper-engraved title page with an incomplete frieze. Illustrated initials and friezes; printer’s mark in the colophon depicting a snake coiling around a lily stem and shedding its old skin, in woodcut. Contemporary loose parchment with a handwritten title on the spine. A fine copy with a slight watermark extending to folio 14.First edition. F.M. Gualterotti (1538–1638) was a Florentine gentleman, canon, poet, and orator who composed many works and numerous occasional poems, especially for weddings. Rare. Contains the first fifteen cantos of the heroic poem, which will comprise twenty-five cantos in total. Gualterotti’s dithyrambic compositions—he was active around the year 1625—are praised by Crescimbeni in the Commentaries to Volume I, pp. 224–226; see the Libreria Capponi catalog, p. 204. Brunet II 1773. Edit 16 CNCE 21935. - T\ICCU\BVEE\034984"