[Rarebooks] FS: Cardinal Bentivoglio's 1st Italian trans. of Statius. Rome: 1729

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(ITALIAN BOOKS) Statius, Publius Papinius. LA TEBAIDE DI STAZIO di Selvaggio 
Porpora. Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni. 1729. 4to. 502pp. With numerous 
copper-engraved head-pieces, tail-pieces and large initials, by Hieronymus Rosi. 
Contemporary vellum, somewhat soiled.     $275.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of the Italian translation by Cardinal Cornelio 
Bentivoglio, who used the pseudonym “Selvaggio Porpora.” Gamba #2454 (“Magnifica Edizione
”).

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