Il Pastor Fido

by Battista Guarini

$200 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Venezia: Domenico Lovisa, 1702. Later printing. Hardcover. 24mo. 240pp. Green marbled wrappers over red spine. Title-page with engraved woodblock and tissue-guard. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Il pastor fido is a pastoral tragicomedy by the Italian poet Battista Guarini 1538–1612 . It was written in the 1580s while Guarini served as court poet for Duke Alfonso d'Este II in Ferrara, and published in 1590. The play

• Printing: later
• Binding: Wrappers

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