Justin Croft Antiquarian Books : CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare. - Il cortegiano, or the courtier: written by the learned Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a new version of the same into ...

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CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare. Il cortegiano, or the courtier: written by the learned Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a new version of the same into English. Together with his other celebrated pieces, as well Latin as Italian, both in prose and verse. To which is prefix’d The life of the author. By A. P. Castiglione, Gent. The second edition. London: for H. Slater, W. and T. Payne, T. Wright and J. Duncan, 1742.

4to (248 × 185 mm), pp. [lxii], 480, 473-508, plus engraved portrait. Price at foot of title trimmed. Contemporary calf, gilt. Joints cracked but secure, corners slightly worn, head of spine and spine label chipped, but still a handsome copy.

Prepared by A.P. Castiglione, who claimed to be a descendant of the author. With its parallel Italian and English texts and an extensive life of the author, this was a popular translation. This is a reissue (with cancel title-page) of the sheets of the 1727 and 1737 editions.

ESTC lists BL and St Patrick’s College only in the British Isles and 7 US copies (Boston Athenaeum, Cleveland Public Library, Columbia, Harvard [Houghton], Johns Hopkins, New York Public Library, and University of Illinois).

£850.00