Ad illustrissimam Claram Corneliam
Subtitle: poemata duo..
Publisher: Apud Hieronymum Discipulum.
Published: 1696
Place of publication: Veronae
Language: lat; ita
Subjects: Poetry; Nobility; Latin poetry; Italian poetry
Other titles: Ad illvstrissimam Claram Corneliam
Notes: Signed on leaf [4] recto: Ersilia Spoluerina.

The second poem is a canzone, written in Italian, and celebrates Chiara Dolfin Cornaro, daughter of the powerful Paduan financier and architectural patron Alvise Cornaro, and wife of the Capitano (military commander) of Verona, Giovanni Corner.

Leaf [5] recto contains a poetic dedication in Latin to Clara Cornelia, another appellation for Chiara Dolfin Cornaro.

Signatures: A⁴ (A1, A4 versos blank) chi1 (chi1 verso blank).

Title page and all leaves with text framed within ornamental woodcut border; printer's ornaement on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Gift; 1997; 98-106-15.

First poem in Latin; second poem in Italian.