[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Lodovico Dolce's Italian trans. of Homer, with Woodcuts. Venice: 1573

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Homer. L'ULISSE DI M. LODOVICO, Dolce da Lui Tratto dall' Odissea d'Homero et Ridotto in Ottava Rima... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari. 1573. 4to. (16),186,(2)pp. Double column text. Large woodcut device of Giolito on title and verso of the final leaf, the register. Each of the 20 cantos with a fine half-page woodcut within an ornate border and each canto with the text of the "Argomento del Canto" within an ornate woodcut border. Full page portrait of Dolce. 18th century vellumn, gilt spine. Title page and text with some old soiling. Lower fore-edge of both covers abraded.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of Lodovico Dolce's posthumously published popularization of Homer for an Italian audience, translating and adapting the Odyssey into the ottava rima of Boccaccio's epics. This is the first substantial version of the Odyssey in Italian; it also contains a translation of the Batromyomachia into the same meter. BL Italian STC p. 331. Bongi. GIOLITO II, p. 335-336. Not in Adams.


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