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ACHILLINI, CLAUDIO: POESIE DE CLAUDIO ACHILLINI. In Venetia, et di nuovo en 
Macerata: Per gle heredi del Salvioni, & Agostino Grisei, 1633. 13.5 cm., 
172, [8] Pp. "Latinae paraphrases ... " by Luigi Scotti and Claudio 
Achillini: [8] p. at end. First part of imprint false; reprints the Venice, 
1633 edition. This is actually a pirated edition published in Bologna in 
1637. The first was published in his home city of Bologna in 1632.Title 
within ornamental border. Dedicated to Odoardo Farnese. Achillini was 
arguably the closest follower of Marino. He maintained a correspondence 
with Giov. Marino, who was a major influence on his work. His 
correspondence with Marino, Stigliani, Borzelli et. al. about poetic 
matters was only published in modern times.  He, even more than Marino was 
despised by Italian criticism through the 19th century. His exaggerated 
metaphysical tropes were mocked and Manzoni used two of them quite 
ironically in I Promessi Sposi. Beginning in the third decade of the last 
century with the revivial of interest in the English metaphysicals,like 
John  Donne, who were  much influenced by Marino and Achillini, Italian 
scholarship took another look and decided that Achillini was worthwhile. 
Also, the revival of Monteverdi contributed to his re-evaluation. For 
example, the work which opened the Medici's Farnese Palace theatre in 1628 
was  "Mercurio e Marte" - with a text by Claudio Achillini and music by 
Claudio Monteverdi. Monteverdi also wrote many madrigals to Achillini's 
poems as well as other stage works.  This collection was very popular 
through the century and many further editions were published, however they 
are all now very rare.Graesse I, 13. No copies of any period edition in 
OCLC; KVK has firsts at both BN and BL only, and our edition can be found 
only in the Canadian National Library in one location and at Harvard. Very 
Good in original vellum, spine titled in pen "Rime Achillini." With cryptic 
initials on verso of the front board. $850.00

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