[Rarebooks] FS: Folengo's macaronic poems, 1692

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[Folengo, Teofilo, 1491-1544]. Opus Merlini Cocaii Poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum. Totum in pristinam forma per me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam optime redactum, in his infra notatis titulis divisum. Amsterdam: Abrahamum a Someren, 1692. Small 8vo (5 ¾ inches, 14.5 cm), bound in full eighteenth-century stained calf, the spine tooled with a diamond and floral all-over design, leather lettering label (a little chipped). With an engraved portrait and 26 engraved chapter headings, as well as woodcut tailpieces. [xxx], 419, [4] pp. Small stain to three leaves; the aforementioned minor chipping to the spine label; bookplate of Murray Anthony Potter on the flyleaf and his ink signature (dated 1909) on the first blank. A very good copy. 



Later printing of the macaronic writings of Folengo (who wrote under the name Merlino Cocajo), a leading Italian macaronic poet, first published in 1521. Brunet (II, p. 302) suggests this was actually printed in Naples, and calls it “edition estimee,” pointing out, however, that it does not reprint all the preliminary material from the 1521 edition. Included here are Folengo's best-known works: the fantastical adventure of Baldo and his best friend, Cingar, a trickster, which involves demons, pirates, giants, witches, and a journey to the underworld, and which served as a model for Rabelais; the “Zanitonella”, which parodies both the Virgilian pastoral and the Petrarchian love-lyric; the “Moscheae,” which relates the victory of the ants over the flies; and various epigrams and letters (Catholic Encyclopedia Online). 

$650 


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