Orlando furioso
By: di M. Lodovico Ariosto
Contributors: Francheschi, Francesco de, printer; Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565; Pigna, Giovan Battista, 1529-1575; Eugenico, Niccolo; Rota, Giovanni Battista, -1577; Bononome, Giuseppe; Camilli, Camillo, -1615; Garofalo, Girolamo; Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, illustrator; Groto, Luigi, 1541-1585; Franco, Giacomo, 1550-1620, engraver; Lavezzola, Alberto, active 1584; Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner; Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933, former owner
Edition: Nuouamente adornato di figure di rame da Girolamo Porro Padouano et di altre cose che saranno notate nella seguente facciata.
Publisher: Appresso Francesco de Franceschi ...
Published: 1584
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 654
Other titles: Orlando fvrioso
Notes: Signatures: *́þ 2*-3*́ı A-Ćþ D-Źı a-úı, ℗øa-ĺþ.

Engraved title page; head- and tailpieces; initials.

"I cinque canti" and "Osservationi" have special title pages, engraved by G. Franco.

Includes index.

Agnelli & Ravegnani, v. I, p. 155-158

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 30

Ridolfi, R. "Orlando." La Bibliofila 54 (1952): 92-96

Adams A1677

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early, elaborately tooled red morocco. Both covers are double-panelled with floral tools and central lozenges. The spine is rebacked, with the original gold-panelled compartments, along with a stamped title, retained. The text block edges are gilt and gauffered in a floral pattern with the gilding between the gauffered leaves scraped away. In this copy, the headpiece border on B4v is upside-down and the same border on F6 is slurred as a result of double-printing. Leaf a7v is uncorrected with the wrong engraving impressed. A correct engraving, trimmed from a different sheet, is tipped over the page. The leather bookplate of Robert Hoe, along with the armorial bookplate of Roderick Terry, is present on the front pastedown. The volume is housed in a brown cloth box with a leather spine.
Table of contents: title: Orlando furioso  -- di M. Lodouico; title: Annotationi ...  -- di I. Ruscelli; title: La vita dell'auttore  -- descritta da G.B. Pigna Ariosto; title: Dichiaratione di tutti l'istorie ...  -- di N. Eugenico; title: Tauola de'principij di tutte le stanze  -- [di G.B. Rota]; title: L'osseruationi sopra tutto l'Ariosto  -- di A. Lauezuola; title: La vita dell'Ariosto  -- descritta da G. Garofolo; title: Vna allegoria vniuersale sopra tutta l'opera dell'Ariosto fatta  -- da G. Bononome; title: Gli epiteti, o aggiunti vsati dall'Ariosto, raccolti ...  -- da C. Camilli; title: I cinque canti -- di M. Lodouico Ariosto ... con gli argomenti in rima, & discorsi di M. Luigi Grotta d'Adria.