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Teatro - Ficoroni, Francesco
Dissertatio de larvis scenicis et figuris comicis antiquorum Romanorum ec Italica in Latinam linguam versa, 1754
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Rome, V. Monaldini and Rotili, 1754. In 2 °. Vignette on the title page printed in red and black, intaglio head and initial, 85 numbered full-page plates engraved on copper by Pomarede and Mazzoni, the folded number II, some woodcut friezes in the text, light scattered blooms and browning, coeval full binding parchment, smooth back patch in blond calfskin with author and title imprinted in gold, polychrome spray cuts, slight lacks and stains.
Specialist Notes
Second edition, corrected and augmented in Latin, of this interesting study on the masks of burlesque figures in the ancient Roman theater, published for the first time in Italian. Olschki, VIII, 10940. Borroni, 13619 /2; Lipsticks, 5008; Cicognara, 1653: "The tables are the same with the difference of a Chapter and a table more at the end of the work [the comparison is with the Italian edition of 1736]. Work that in this matter can be considered the most classic and copious of those that preceded it ". & nbsp;