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[DELLA BARBA, Pompeo]. Spositione d'vn sonetto platonico, fatto sopra il primo effecto d'amore, che č il separare l'anima dal corpo de l'amante, doue si trata de la immortalitą de l'anima secondo Aristotile, e secondo Platone, Florence, [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1554

8vo. 56ff. (including the 2 final blanks). Woodcut device on title-page, in old vellum.

Second edition of Della Barba's explanation of his own 'Platonic' sonnet which begins 'L'ombre agli amati corpi ognhora intorno/vagando stanno a' i lor sepolcri appresso'. The author (1521-1582) was a Florentine doctor and philosopher.
Censimento CNC 16456; Moreni pp.249-50; this edition not in Adams; NUC locate only the copies at PU and PPULC

£650

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