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

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Marino, Giovanbattista

The massacre of the innocents, 1633

Estimate

€ 150 - 250

Sold

€ 194

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Information

In Venetia, near Giacomo Scaglia, 1633. 4th, two parts in one volume, etched illustrated frontispiece with title enclosed in an artistic allegorical frame, etched portrait of Marino no. t., pp. 154 + 93 containing the seventh canto of the "Jerusalem destroyed with the invective song, against the nefando vitio" and the "Life of Cavalier Gio. Battista Marino described by Cavaliere Francesco Ferrari". Gore to the lower margin. 19th century binding mz. parchment, label, title and gilt decorations on the spine.

Specialist Notes

First Venetian edition of a year following the original edition published posthumously, in Naples, which deals with the famous massacre ordered by Herod.