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Rare original edition of a seventeenth-century Italian poet

PARTICO, Essione (Pseudon. for Gioacomo NASI?).
Endecasyllabi di Essione Partico callifilio archiludimagistro.

Woodcut vignette on title.

Woodcut vignette on title.

Woodcut vignette on title.



Viterbo, no pr., 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with gilt title on spine, blue painted edges with title written on top edge. Woodcut vignette on title. 117, (1) pp. and last blank.

Very rare first edition of this poetical work with Italian sonnets and poems on a.o. the nine Muses and the nymphs in the style of Petrarca. A second edition was published in Venice in 1684 for Antonio Bulifon, who was a librarian in Naples. The work is dedicated to Francesco del Bosco, Isfar et Corilles, who was the baron of the castle Siculiana and the Prince of the town Cattolica in Italy. The author is Essione Partico, which might be the pseudonym for Giacomo Nasi, to whom the laudatory poem is dedicated. Apparently Essione Partico is supposed to be a beauty-loving Gymnasium teacher and much influenced by 15th-century Petrarcism. His poetry has a certain homo-erotical nature.

Contents:
- Half-title: 'Il mastro di scuola' (verso blank).
- Title (verso blank)
- Dedication to Francesco del Bosco, Isfar et Corilles (pp. 5-7).
- Probations (p. 8).
- Laudatory poem to Giacomo Nasi (p. 9).
- Twenty-five numbered sonnets without titles (pp. 10-34).
- The poem 'Idilio'. (pp. 35-60).
- Poems on the nine muses Clio, Calliope, Terpsicore, Melpomene, Polyhimnia, Euterpe, Erato, Thalia and Urania (pp. 61-9).
- Poems on nymphs (pp. 70-6).
- Fourty-one numbered sonnets (pp. 77-117).
- Errata (p. 118).

Good copy with contemporary annotations and corrections, bookplate (a crowned 'L') pasted on inside of front cover, 18th-century manuscript entries on first blank and ownership's entry on title.- (Some browning and foxing).
Cf. B. Croce, 'Gli "Endecasillabi" di Essione Partico e la poesia di Fidenzio', in: Nuovi saggi sulla letteratura taliana del seicento (Bari 1968), p. 78; not in STC Italian.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Italy  Literature  Poetry 

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