1625 Italian Renaissance Bracciolini Lo Scherno Degli of gods Mythology TASSO

1625 Italian Renaissance Bracciolini Lo Scherno Degli of gods Mythology TASSO

Francesco Bracciolini was a Italian Renaissance poet known primarily for his poem ‘Lo Scherno Degli’. This poem was a satirical work in which he mocked mythical gods and heroes in favor of the one true God. This poem reads as a parody and, according to Kisacky,

“is a defense of an orthodox interpretation of Tasso”.

This 1625 Florentine edition was edited by Giovanni Maria Gherardi and features impressive ornamental border around each page.

Item number: #14396

Price: $599

BRACCIOLINI, Francesco

Dello scherno de gli dei, : poema piaceuole

In Firenze : Appresso i Giunti, M.DC.XXV. [1625]

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 236, [2]
• References: Julia Kisacky, Renaissance Quarterly, 2005, 1299;
• Provenance:
  • Handwritten – James R. Ballantyne, 1837
    • James Robert Ballantyne (1813–1864) was a Scottish Orientalist.
    • From 1832 to 1845 he was a master at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh, teaching Persian Hindi and Arabic to prospective officers of the East India Company. From 1845 he was superintendent of the Sanskrit College (Benares) in Varanasi (then known as Benares). He went to England in 1861 where he was elected librarian of the India Office.
    • Ballantyne published grammars of Sanskrit, Hindi (2nd edition, 1868), and Marathi, and published an edition of the Laghukaumudi of Varadarāja 1849-52 and the first part of the Mahabhashya of Patanjali in 1856, for the first time opening native Indian grammatical tradition to a wider European scholarly audience.
  • Language: Italian
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)

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