Il furioso
By: di M. Lodouico Ariosto ; ornato di varie figure ; con cinque canti d'un nuouo libro, & altre stanze del medesimo, nuouamente aggiunti: con belle allegorie: & nel fine, vna breue espositione de gli oscuri vocabuli: con la tauola di tutto quello che nell'opera si contiene
Publisher: Appresso Bastiano di Bartholomeo Honorati
Published: 1556
Place of publication: In Lione
Language: ita
Number of pages: 511
Other titles: Fvrioso
Work titles: Orlando furioso
Notes: Edited, with appendices and commendatory sonnet, by Lodovico Dolce.

Colophon (p. [550]): Stampato in Lione per Iacopo Fabro.

One of 2 eds. with identical imprint. This octavo ed. has 511 numbered p. and is printed in roman type; the quarto ed. has 508 numbered p. and is printed in italic type. Cf. Agnelli.

Signatures: A-2L⁸ M⁴.

Title within woodcut architectural border, with Honorat's woodcut device in center; variant devices on p. 453 and [551].

Woodcut ill. at beginning of each canto; woodcut historiated initials. The ill. are printed from woodblocks "cut for Benedetto Giunta's 1544 Florence edition", which are "close copies of the set designed for the Venice editions printed by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari". The ill. for canto 42 has been repeated for canto 41, the original woodblock presumably having been lost. Cf. Mortimer.

The Cinque canti has divisional title page.

Text in double columns.

Commendatory poem by Luigi Gonzaga on p. 451-452.

"Cinque canti di vn nuouo libro di M. Lodouico Ariosto": p. 453-503.

Baudrier, H.-L. Bib. lyonnaise, IV, 170.

Agnelli, G. Annali delle edizioni Ariostee, I, 103.

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent. books, 37.