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Orlando furioso
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Author: Lodovico Ariosto (Italian, 1474–1533)
Printer: Vincenzo Valgrisi (Italian, active 1540–1572)
Author: Lodovico Ariosto (Italian, 1474–1533)
Printer: Vincenzo Valgrisi (Italian, active 1540–1572)
1572
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 46 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 25.2 x 19.8 x 5.4 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 x 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Sarah Sullivan Perkins and Mrs. Charles Mills Cabot in memory of Miss Elizabeth Welles Perkins
Accession Number28.969
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1572
Catalogue Raisonné
Mortimer, Italian, 29 (1562 ed.)
Description(Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1572) Quarto; 354 leaves; modern limp vellum, dark tan cloth box.
Illustrations: architectural title border with portrait and devices of Ariosto, and printer's device; full-page illustrations within decorative borders at head of each canto.
Illustrations: architectural title border with portrait and devices of Ariosto, and printer's device; full-page illustrations within decorative borders at head of each canto.
ProvenanceOld ownership inscriptions title and verso, one by Nicolai Papini [?]; unidentified collector's stamp on lower pastedown (initials OG with serpent and staff); Ferd. Ongania, Venice (bookseller's label); Sarah Sullivan Perkins and Charles Mills Cabot, by whom given to MFA, March 1928.