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Tuesday 20 June 2023 e Wednesday 21 June 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Caro, Annibale

Rhymes, 1572

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€ 120 - 200

Sold

€ 181

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Information

In Venice, near Aldo Manuzio, 1572 . In 4th, pp. (8) + 103 + (1b) + (8). Artistic modern binding in sixteenth-century style, in full brown leather, spine with five compartments with gold title and embossed decorations, on the plates series of concentric frames with embossed geometric motifs.

Specialist Notes

The trace is given by the description of imaginary meetings of some Europeans in Ephesus in the house of a patrician named Stamperne; on this track are grafted the very famous satires such as the one on the "King of Aetolia, who makes other people's wives shameless, nor takes care of his own dishonesty" or the one "against the custom of castrating children" or the other on "A astrologer, who had given birth to his wife" etc. The latest tobacco trade. The author directs his satires against the Asians of ancient times to indirectly strike the Europeans of his century.