La Noblesse, excellence, et Antiquité de l’Asne. Traduict de l’Italien du Seigneur Attabalippa

by Adriano Banchieri

$2,450 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Extremely rare first and only French edition (first Italian: 1592) of this satirical work on the nobility of the ass by one of the major musical theorists of the early Baroque. This is the earliest extant work and by far the most successful by Banchieri (1568-1634). The work ran into..... More

• Binding: Leather

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