TASSO, Torquato, known as LE TASSE (1544-1595): - Lot 170

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TASSO, Torquato, known as LE TASSE (1544-1595): - Lot 170
TASSO, Torquato, known as LE TASSE (1544-1595): Di Gerusalemme Conquistata del Sig. Torquato Tasso Libri XXIIII. Parigi, appresso Abel L'Angelieri, 1595. In-12, (12 ff) including 2 blanks- 461 leaves (erroneously numbered 361). Full overlapping vellum. Contemporary binding. "This edition contains on the numbered folio 270 nineteen verses celebrating Sixtus V tracing a dark portrait of France, widow of its crown...This passage, containing ideas contrary to the authority of the King and the good of the Kingdom was condemned by the Parliament of Paris by a ruling of September 1595..." (Balsamo et Simonin, n°263, pages 271-272).
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