Folengo, Orlandino, Venice, da Sabbio, 1526, later half calf

Teofilo Folengo

Orlandino per Limerno Pitocco da Mantova composto. (Venice: Giovanni Antonio Niccolini da Sabbio and brothers, 1526)

8vo (146 x 97mm.), woodcut illustrations, woodcut device at end, nineteenth-century half calf, title-leaf slightly repaired, final leaf laid down, upper joint cracked

Second edition of Folengo's epic poem set in the Carolingian period, written under the pseudonym of Limerno Pitocco (he also wrote as Merlinus Coccaius). The first edition, also printed in Venice in July 1526 and almost identical in appearance with the same woodcuts, survives in just one copy.

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Edit16 19362; Sander 2833