Torquato Tasso. Rime: Parte prima / Insieme con altri componimenti del medesimo. — Venice: [Aldus Manutius the Younger], 1581.

Title-page: RIME | DEL SIGNOR | TORQUATO | TASSO. | PARTE PRIMA. | Insieme con altri componimenti | del medesimo | CON PRIVILEGIO. | {publisher’s device} | IN VINEGIA, M D LXXXI. ||

Contents: 1. Rime; 2. Aminta favola boscareccia; 3. Conclusioni amorose; 4. Il Romeo, overo del Giuoco dialogo; 5. Lettera, nellaquale paragona l’Italia alla Francia; 6. All’eccellentis signor Duca di Urbino; 7. Dialogo del l’amor.

Pagination: [2 blanks], [2] – t.p. / blank, [4] dedication, [2] – blank / content, [16] – tavola, [1] 2-160 – rime, [8] [1] 2-74 – aminta, [4] 1-9 [10 blank] – conclusion, [2] [1]-22  – dialogo, [2] 1-27 [28 blank] – lettera, [2] 1-4 – all’eccellentiss, [4 blanks], [2] 1-17 [18 blank] – dialogo del l’amor, [2] – Car. 52 / Car. 113., [4 blanks], total 372 pages.

Collation: 8vo; first blank, *⁴, **⁸, A-K⁸, 2A-2L⁸ M⁴, last blank; total 186 leaves, incl. first and last blanks. Note: 2F₂, 2G₁, 2K₄, 2L₁, and 2M_3,4 – unsigned.

Binding: 15.2 x 10.3 cm, 19^th-century polished calf by Duke St., St. James, London (ticket) Cambridge panels ruled in gilt with fleurons at corners, two crimson labels to spine with gilt lettering, gilt in compartments, raised bands ruled gilt, rebacked, AEG, bookplate to front pastedown: “BIBLIOTECA | del | Conte Leonardo Vitetti | Ambasciatore d’Italia” in a frame, and “The Robin Collection” to FEP. Inset a card from Bryn Mawr College Library.

Provenance:

Satinsky, Robin F. (American, 1919 – 2008), The Robin Collection.

Count Leonardo Vitetti (Italian, 1895 – 1973)

Bryn Mawr College Library (Pennsylvania)

Contributors:

Torquato Tasso (Italian, 1544 –1595) – author.

Aldus Manutius, the Younger (Italian, 1547 – 1597) – printer, publisher.