ARIOSTO, Ludovico.

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Orlando furioso. A nicely bound set of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso with notes by Vincenzo Gioberti from Del primato morale e civile degl'Italiani ("On the Moral and Civil Primacy of the Italians"). In the prefatory notes, he crowns Ariosto as "the prince of heroic poetry" ("principe della cantica eroica"), second only to Dante. Gioberti (1801-1852) was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher and politician, serving as Sardinia's prime minister in 1848-9. This is the third Le Monnier edition, the first appearing in 1846.

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