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Florence, Antonio Ceccherelli, 1566. In 4th. Frontispiece in large xylographic architectural frame with festoons and cherubs that support the Medici coat of arms and raise a fake curtain to reveal the city of Florence in the background, large and valuable figured woodblock initial, followed by other small ones, small ends, scattered blooms, some burnished pages, binding in rigid parchment from the 18th century.
Specialist Notes
Girolamo Amelònghi, known as the Hunchback of Pisa, was a burlesque poet who flourished in the mid 1500s. Lived in Florence in the circle of the Stradino and Lasca, his figure is linked to the environment of the Florentine Academy; wrote, in addition to chapters, madrigals and carnival songs, La Gigantea (1547) in 128 octaves, one of the first Italian heroic-comic poems, on the war of the giants against the gods, where the taste for the macabre and the hyperbolic is evident, a clear anticipation of baroque poetics.