GELLI, G.

La Circe di Giovan-Batista Gelli Accademico Fiorentino. Nuoumente accresciusta & reformata

      In Fiorenza, no publ. [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1550. 8vo. W. printed title within architectural woodc.border, woodc. portrait of Gelli on verso printed title, a few woodc. (floriated and historiated) initials. A light brown19th c. full blind- and gilttooled clf., spine gilt, covers w. double gilt rule. Corners of covers blindst. in 'arabesque' manner. Edges of covers gilttooled. (224 pp.). (Occasional foxing.). Second edition. Brit. Museum STC Italian, p. 293: Adams comp. G333 (first ed 1549): Kindler 2023: 'Philosophische Dialoge ... Gesprächspartner sind Odysseus, Circe und elf von ihr in Tiere verwandelte Griechen ... La Circe ist Gellis Hauptwerk und steht thematisch und formal in der Tradition des florentinischen Humanismus. Das Werk hatte bei seinem Erscheinen grossen Erfolg und fand weite Verbreitung.': Mortimer Harvard Italian 16th c. comp. item 207 (first ed. 1549): 'Title border with terminal figures, cherubs, and grotesques, including Torrentino's device of the Medici arms. On the verso of the title is a woodcut portrait of the author, 95 x 72 mm. This block appears first in 1548 ...The same block is used in other works of Gelli at Harvard ...the 1549 Circe, the 1550 Circe [here offered], ... [these eds.] ..have the title border as well as the portrait.': A very nice copy