1585 ILLUSTRATED MACARONIC POETRY MERLINI COCAII antique 16th CENTURY

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: Dominico de Imberti, 1585.

A curious edition of this famous satirical work , illustrated with 27 engravings

Size 3 by 5.5"

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

Trimmed,  19th-century green morocco binding

Wear, some spots, one page lower corner margin repaired, some foxing

Text in Latin