Bernardo Tasso. DELLE LETTERE DI M. BERNARDO TASSO, SECONDO VOLUME. NUOUAMENTE POSTO IN LUCE, CON GLI ARGOMENTI PER CIASCUNA LETTERA, E CON LA TAVOLA. Venice: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1560. Full vellum, label with gilt on spine, all edges with red and blue pattern. 8vo; *8 A-Y8 Z4 2A-2R8; [16], 640 (i.e. 632) (several pages mis-numbered). Italic type with Roman; text in Italian. With woodcut printer's device on title page, woodcut initials. Adams T214; Edit16 26309; USTC 858232.

6 x 4 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Bernardo Tasso (Italy, 1493-1569) was a courtier, secretary, and poet, and the father of the celebrated poet Torquato Tasso. He is best known for his poems inspired by Horace, was well as his correspondence that provides a great deal of information about court life in Renaissance Italy.

Vellum with minor stains and discoloration, corners lightly bumped, edgewear, front joint with tiny wormhole and cracking at tail, light wear at head and tail of spine, label lightly rubbed with loss to later applied sticker; writing on endpapers, small wormhole at hinge; title page with small tear at top edge, (2) stamps, (2) repairs with associated loss of the text "secondo volume," and ink marks over repair; one small repair to *2; rectangular cut loss to top edge of X1; pages lightly toned with foxing and occasional ink mark or writing, many leaves with damp staining, heaviest at gathering 2P, one leaf with small edge loss.