(BARGALI, Girolamo = "Materiale Intronato"). Dialogo de' giuochi che nelle vegghie Sanesi si usano di fare...All' illustrissima, et eccellen.ma Signora Donna Isabella de' Medici Orsina Duchessa di Bracciano. Siena, Luca Sonetti 1572.
Sm.- 4to. 223 pp. Woodcut on title (coat-of-arms: Accademia degli Intrinati), small woodcut on last leaf verso ("lupa senese").First edition. The most famous work of this Sienese legal scholar and courtier ( 1537 -1589) written as a dialogue in the tradition of Castiglione's "II Cortigiano". The author, bemoaning the degeneration of contemporary late-night gatherings, presents a lively discussion filled with allusions to literary and worldly preoccupations tending to affirm the spiritual and intellectual equality of men and women. The text also presents aseries of intellectual games and enigmas reminiscent of the contemporary fascination for emblems ("alla fondamentale distinzione dei giochi (di spirito, d'ingegno, di scherzo e di piacevolezza), segue illoro fitto catalogo accompagnato da una minuta descrizione". Diz biogr degli Italiani VI, 341-43). Title with marginal defects (restored, not touching text / cut). Slightly browned and finger-stained throughout, in places manuscript entries. Gamba 1237; BMSTC (Italian Books) 426.
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