1678 CRUSADES Tasso MINIATURE Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata

1678 CRUSADES Tasso MINIATURE Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata

“All he regarded; but in Syria most,

He mark’d the leaders of the Christian host:

That eye, whose penetrating glances dart

To each deep secret of the human heart”

– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, canto I

Originally written in 1575, Torquato Tasso’s famous “Jerusalem Delivered” tells a mythical story of the First Crusade complete with Christian Knights battling Muslim warriors.

This 1678 edition is a very rare, miniature 17^th-century printing of Torquato Tasso’s ‘Jerusalem Delivered’ with 10 illustrated plates by Sébastien Le Clerc and an engraved half-title.

Item number: #7459

Price: $499

TASSO, Torquato

Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme liberata : poema heroico del sig. Torquato Tasso. Con l’allegoria universale dell istesso, et con gli argomenti del sig. Horatio Ariosti, & di bellissime figure adornato.

In Amsterdam: Nella stamperia del S.D. Elsevier. Et in Parigi si vende appresso Thomaso Jolly…, M. DC. LXXVIII [1678]

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • [34], 271, [1]
  • 11 engraved plates
• References: Willems 1557
• Language: Italian
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~4in X 2.5in (10.5cm x 6cm)

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