ON LOVE

Manso, Giovanni Battista: I Paradossi, overo dell' amore, dialogi di Gio. Battista Manso. All' Illustrissimo, & Eccellentissimo Gregorio Buoncompagni, Marchese di Vignola. In Milano, appresso Girolamo Bordoni libraro [Colophon: In Milano, per Pandolfo, & Marco Tullio Malatesti, Stampatori Regij Camerali, ad istanza di Girolamo Bordoni libraro] 1608.

First edition of this philosophical study of love - it includes opinions from physicians, astrologers and cabalists, and much on romantic love. Manso was an editor and biographer of Torquato Tasso.

Details

4to., pp. [48] 221 [1]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Woodcut vignette to title-page. Light browning, oil stain to blank top margin, last few leaves, bound in limp vellum, title inked on spine in Spanish script (some worming to tail of spine and bottom of covers, and staining here at back cover, but good). Inscription to title-page scored out (leaving small holes in title-page), a few early doodles and pen-trails, inscription to title-page "Biblioteca Palitti".

SBN: IT\ICCU\TO0E\001943.