1649 LA MELPOMENE OPERA antique VELLUM BOUND POETRY in FRENCH

La Melpomene opera.

Florence, Massi & Landi (1649).

by Alessandro Adimari

5 pp., 103 pp.

Original limp vellum, lacks ties and endpapers

One of a total of six collections of 50 sonnets each, published in Florence between 1637 and 1642 and named after six of the nine Muses.

Good condition, minor toning

Size 6 by 8.5 inches

Text in French
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Alessandro Adimari (1579 – 1649) was an Italian Baroque poet and classical scholar.
In his verse he practised both concettismo and the Pindaric mode, as he theorized in his Lettera sopra la poesia ditirambica (1629).
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