I dilettevoli
Subtitle: sermoni, altrimenti satire, e le morali epistole di Horatio, illustre poeta lirico, insieme con la poetica
By: ridotte da M. Lodovico Dolce dal poema latino in uersi sciolti volgari ; con la vita di Horatio origine della satira, discorso sopra le satire, discorso sopra le epistole, discorso sopra la poetica
Contributors: Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568; Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele
Publisher: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari
Published: 1559
Place of publication: In Vinegia [Venice]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Latin Epistolary poetry; Translations into Italian; Poetry; Politics and government
Notes: The first Italian translation, and the second into any vernacular (following a French version of 1549) of the Satires and Epistles of Horace.

Signatures: A-V⁸.

Errors in paging: p. 158-159 misnumbered 157-158.

Title vignette: device of G. Giolito de' Ferrari; repeated at end in variant form; initials.

Woodcut initials throughout; text printed in Italic type.

Access restricted: Apply to the curator of rare books.

Marshall, Robert G. Short-title catalog of books printed in Italy, 138

Tisch Library Special Collections Copy: Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex Libris : Joannis Rossi Veneti : Gerardi Filii".

Tisch Library Special Collections Copy: Bound in 18th-century vellum boards, red morocco lettering piece (one corner defective), marbeled endpapers, edges speckled blue and red.