L’Enrico overo Bisantio Acquistato poema heroico

by Lucrezia Marinella

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First edition

12mo 14 x 8 cm : 647, 3 pp. Bound in speckled stiff board parchment. Title inked on spine. Without pastedowns. Some foxing and worm holes throughout. Water stains and soiling on the first 40 pages. Overall, good. The first edition of a twenty-seven-canto epic poem on the Fourth Crusade 1202-1204 and Venice's conquest of Byzantium by Lucrezia Marinella 1571-1653 , a prolific seventeenth-century Venetian writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's

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