Lusus in venerem. Backstrip paneled in gilt, with fleurons.
All edges gilt.
First printed edition of the book that scandalized Renaissance Italy, Panormita's The Hermaphrodite . The anthology also includes the sweet love poetry of Giovanni Pontano, Johannes Secundus, Ramusius and Pacificus Maximus. Bound in contemporary full vellum with title in ink on spine. Pages uniformly toned. Third and most complete edition of this early biographical dictionary of Roman artists, sculptors, architects and engravers.