Discorsi di M. Giovambattista Giraldi Cinthio nobile ferrarese, e segretario dell'illvstrissimo et eccellentiss. dvca di Ferrara
Subtitle: intorno al comporre de i romanzi, delle comedie, e delle tragedie, e di altre maniere di poesie : con la tavola delle cose piv notabili in tvtti essi discorsi contenvte
Contributors: Pigna, Giovan Battista, 1529-1575
Publisher: Appresso Gabriel Ciolito de Ferrari et fratelli
Published: 1554
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Satire; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Drama; Early works to 1800; Epic poetry; Comparative literature; Italian poetry
Notes: Signatures: *⁴ A-M⁸ N⁸(N3+chi⁸) O-S⁸, ²*⁴ 2*⁴ 3*⁶.

Errata: p. [27]-[29] at end.

"Gioua[n]battista Giraldi a messer Gioua[n]battista Pigna ... della poesia dell'Ariosto ..."--[16] p. interpolated between p. 198 and 199.

Includes index.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device); printer's device (variant) in colophon (p. [1] at end); head-pieces; historiated initials.

Bound in old limp vellum; ink title on title; bookplate of J.A. Van Praag on front pastedown; signature of Bernardino Saretti [?] on front free endpaper.