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Thursday 04 July 2024 e Friday 05 July 2024, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Dottori, Carlo

The donkey. Heroic-comic poem by Iroldo Crotta. With the arguments of Mr. Alessandro Zacco, and the notes of Mr. Sertorius Orsato, 1652

Estimate

€ 600 - 800

Sold

€ 645

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Matteo Leni, 1652. In 12°, 144 x 78 mm. Intaglio frieze on the title page, on the first 10 pages. a letter from Francesco Grimaldi to Nicolò Leoni, a Venetian gentleman, divided into 10 Cantos with a final farewell from the author to his Donkey, SPLENDID NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMATEUR BINDING IN LONG-GRAIN GREEN MOROCCAN, with refined frames decorated in gold on the plates, 5 raised spine with decorated compartments and title in gold, dentils, on the pastedown ex libris Caroli Nodier, on the last leaf the indication that the copy comes from the Nodier Catalogue, n.659 . 


Specialist Notes

Heroic poem that draws inspiration from a legend that tells of a quarrel between Padua and Vicenza over the loss of the Donkey banner in battle, which was then returned to the Vicentines in exchange for sausages. 

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