Author: Franco, Niccolo
Title: La Philena
Description: Mantoua, Per Iacomo Ruffinelli Venetiano, 1547. Leather bound. Brown leather boards with gilt spine lettering; all edge gilt, bw illustrated title page; 470 pp. Text is in Italian. Woodcuts: title vignette is oval medallion portrait of the author, flanked by his initials "N" and "F"; portrait repeated on verso of leaf [2] at end; printer's device in colophon (Ruffinelli's figure of Fortune, holding a wind-filled sail, standing atop a dolphin, with motto "Te invita portum inveniam"). Includes Franco's preface, addressed to Giuseppe Cantelmo, conte di Popoli, dated April 4, 1547 in Mantua. Good+ (heavy shelfwear to leather boards, front cover loose, pages age toned but clean and clear) .

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