[Item #15585] Rime. ITALIAN LITERATURE, Alessandro GUIDI.

Rime

Roma: Giacomo Komarek, 1704. First Edition. Quarto (24cm). Contemporary vellum over boards; hand-inked spine title; 119pp. Boards bowing; scattered internal foxing; still a tight, pleasing copy.

Guidi (1650-1712) was an important Roman poet and critic, noted for his reforming influence over the schools of Marini and Achillinni (qv Britt. 11th ed). This was the final collection of Guidi's lyrics issued in his lifetime (he is said to have died of an apoplectic fit upon discovering a typographical error in his final book, a verse translation of six homilies of Pope Clement XI). From the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate bookplate inside front cover.

Price: $250.00

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