Vignajuolo, Enante [Baruffaldi Girolamo]
Grillo Canti Dieci D'Enante Vignajuolo
Venezia, Homobon Bettanino, 1738. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy and lovely of exterior Probably a Second Edition, there having been published another edition close in date to this edition, in Verona, Italy. "Enante Vignajuolo" is the pseudonym for Girolamo Baruffaldi, the Elder (1675-1755). [12], 2-244 pp. Bound in a short octavo format, with a most attractive paste-paper over soft, flexible boards, paper label to spine, with some loss there. Sturdy, tightly bound, rough-cut page edges all-round, and some pencil and pen marks up front previous owners, including from Mr. Robert Allen, a bookseller and appraiser. An allegorical intaglio frontispiece engraved by Francesco Zucchi following an invention by M. Spada and a vignette on the title page, equally allegorical in nature and engraved on copper; right bottom corner torn away and paper-repaired there, with loss of only a single letter. Really lovely intaglio illustrated heads. The previous owner writes that this is "a playful poem aimed at sarcastically lashing out at the medical arts and practitioners. The burlesque production of Girolamo Baruffaldi the Elder (Ferrara, 1675-1755), here adumbrated under the pseudonym of "Enante Vignajuolo." "The work looks back to Plutarch's and Gelli's amusing embellishments of Homer and the colloquy between Ulysses and the hog-man Grillus, who argues that he prefers to remain in his hoggish state, with Circe." Edmund Spenser deals with same in Book II of The Faerie Queen. Baruffaldi "was an Italian historian who wrote a biography of artists active in Ferrara" (Wikipedia), where he was born. He was a student at a Jesuit institute in Novellara and even entered the Jesuit Order (but that in 1773 was suppressed). He became a librarian for the public library then permanent secretary of the Accademia Ariostea; sadly, "he died impoverished."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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