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Leyda, Elzevier, 1659. In 24°, 128 x 78 mm. Title page and 6 full-page etchings engraved out of text by Pierre Philippe, engraved headpieces and end caps, perfect copy, refined amateur binding in blond calfskin with double frame with gold fillets on the plates and five-ringed spine with title and decorations in gold , dentelle, golden cuts.
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EXCELLENT ELZEVIRIAN EDITION OF GUARINI'S MASTERPIECE.
An ingenious and audacious experiment, Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy aims to present itself as a synthesis and innovative overcoming of the genres present on the sixteenth-century theater scene. Heir, in terms of themes and typologies, to a now consolidated and illustrious Ferrara pastoral tradition, animated by a spirit of competition with the Aminta of Tasso - which, however, does not exhaust the horizon of the Guarini challenge - , Pastor Fido, a text of deceptive levity, exhibits a combinatorial exercise practiced at all levels.
An ingenious and audacious experiment, Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy aims to present itself as a synthesis and innovative overcoming of the genres present on the sixteenth-century theater scene. Heir, in terms of themes and typologies, to a now consolidated and illustrious Ferrara pastoral tradition, animated by a spirit of competition with the Aminta of Tasso - which, however, does not exhaust the horizon of the Guarini challenge - , Pastor Fido, a text of deceptive levity, exhibits a combinatorial exercise practiced at all levels.
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