TWO COLLECTIONS OF POEMS

[1.]: RARE COLLECTION OF PASTORAL SONGS AND OTHER POEMS BY FRANCESCO BONAFINI

Bonafini, Francesco. Canzoni pastorali ed altre poesie del dottor Francesco Bonafini veronese. Verona: dalla tipografia Giuliari, 1818.

8vo (224x156 mm), marbled paper binding; pp. 94, [2], [1] plate. Engraved portrait of the Author at frontispiece. Engraved vignette at title-page.

References: IT\ICCU\LO1E\012657 (4 copies). OCLC, 248963303 (one copy in Germany), 31413263 (two copies in USA).


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[2.]: RARE COLLECTION OF POEMS BY LODOVICO PASTÒ

Pastò, Lodovico. Poesie del dotor Lodovico Pastò venezian. A Venezia: da la Stamperia de Z. B. Merlo, 1833.

16mo (114x78 mm), half leather binding, marbled paper at boards gilt title and decorations at spine; pp. 173. Engraved vignette at title-page.

Ludovico Pastò (1744-1806), physician and dialect poet of Venice. He left a collection of vivid Poems (1806) of burlesque intonation, including Polenta and Death of Lesbin (on fidgets of a lady by the death of a dog); he was also a famous gourmet.

References: IT\ICCU\UBO\4135769 (one copy at the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio – Bologna). OCLC, 165718224 (only electronic copy).

[1.]: Partially uncut leaves. A very good copy.
[2.]: A fine copy.