1581 ILLUSTRATED MACARONIC POETRY MERLINI COCAII antique 16th CENTURY RARE

Merlinus Coccaius (= T. Folengo).


FOLENGO Teofilo (1491-1544)


Opus Merlinicocaii Poetae Mantuani Macarronicum.
Totum in pristinam formam per me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam optime redactum, in his infra notatus diuisum:

ZANITONELLA. Quae de amore Tonelli arga Zaninam tractat. Quae constat ex XIII. Sonolegiis, VII. Ecclogis, & una Strambotolegia.
PHANTHASIAE, Macaronicon, diuisum in XXV. Macaronicis, tractans de gestismagnanimi, & prudentissimi Baldi.
MOCHAEAE, Facetus liber in tribus partibus diuisos, & tractans decruentocertamine Muscarum & Formicarum.
LIBELLUS, Epistolarum, & Epigrammatum, ad varias personas directarum

Venice, Horatius de Gobbis, 1581

541,(9)p.

Woodcut title-vignette and 27 engraved text illustrations


Original blindstamped calf rebacked with matching later gilt calf backstrip

Size about 3 by 5.5"

 Printer's device on the title, woodcut vignettes in text and engraved initials.



Very good interior condition, front cover is almost detached (holding on one cord)

Text in Latin