Orlando furioso
By: di M. Lodouico Ariosto ; ornato di varie figure, con alcune stanze ; et cinque canti d'vn nuouo libro del medesimo nuouamente aggiunti, & ricorretti ; con alcune allegorie. & nel fine una breue espositione, et tauola di tutto quello, che nell'opera si contiene
Publisher: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari
Published: 1554
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: Roland (Legendary character); Romances
Other titles: Orlando fvrioso; Espositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficile.
Work titles: Orlando furioso
Notes: Colophon: In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrai [sic] e fratelli. MDLIIII.

Signatures: *⁸ A-2Q⁸ 2R⁴

Errors in paging: 152, 296 misnumbered 151, 966 respectively.

Title within woodcut architectural border, with printer's device.

Printer's devices on p. [527], [589] and on last page.

Oval woodcut port. of Ariosto on p. [16] (1st count), repeated on p. [524]; 51 woodcut ill. in text; woodcut initials.

The "Cinque canti" and the "Espositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficile" (by Lodovico Dolce) have special title-pages; the first dated 1553, the second 1554.

Erratum: p. [15] (1st count).

In some copies, the dedication leaf is signed 'Aii" instead of '*ii".  Mortimer suggests that this is a cancel leaf, but in fact it is only a variant signing.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent., I, 28.