Orlando Furioso (3rd edition)
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Overview:
- Title: Orlando Furioso (3rd edition)
- Author: Ludovico Ariosto
- Year: 1584
- Publisher: Francesco de Franceschi
- Pages: [40]+654+[34]+43
- Binding: unknown
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Orlando Furioso (3rd edition)
- Notes:
- 3 parts in one volume
- Edited by Girolamo Ruscelli. Includes various commentaries, "about the author", etc., which are listed in the referenced OCLC records.
- Intended to have 51 full-page engravings by Girolamo Porro, at the beginning of each canto, but plate 34 was suppressed and replaced by a duplicate of plate 33.
- The photo with this publication is of plate #9, and should be replaced by a cover or title page if that becomes available.
- Mortimer, in Harvard Italian calls it "The most elaborate of the 16th century editions" of Orlando Furioso.
- Data from Christie's Auction House and from WorldCat.