Rime De Gli Academici Occulti Con Le Loro Imprese Et Discorsi.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/2560

Imprint

In Brescia.: , MDLXVIII.

Physical Description

[5], 128, [8] f., title-plate: illus.; 240 mm. (Quarto.)

General Note

Leaf 35 is misnumbered as 53; 126 as 128; 128 as 126.

[T-pl., dedic.] - [Text] - Tavola De' Discorsi Et Delle Rime De Gli Academici Occulti - Alcune Mende Occorse Nello Stampare - [Colophon].

Responsibility Note

M. Praz in 'Studies in seventeenth-century imagery' (1947) states that the discorsi are by Bartolommeo Arnigio.

The title-plate is signed 'Bart. Brxi Excu', and the emblems 'S.B.B.' - i.e. Bartolomeo da Brescia.

The name of the bookseller or publisher is given in the colophon: 'In Brescia, Appresso Vincenzo Di Sabbio. MDLXVIII.'

The work is dedicated by Il Secretario to Signora Barbara Calina.

Summary Note

The work consists of sixteen discourses and collections of poems on sixteen emblems; which are listed in the Tavola: [1.] Sileno, Impresa De Gli Academici Occulti; 2. l'Abstruso, by Girolamo Bornato; 3. L'Adombrato, by Pietro Antonio Soncino; 4. L'Arcano, by Alberto Lollio; 5. Il Chiuso, by Conte Alfonso Cauriuolo; 6. Il Desioso, by Francesco Ricchino; 7. L'Incognito, by Agostin Gallo; 8. L'Intricato, by Antonio Querengo; 9. Il Notturno, by Gio. Antonio Taglietti; 10. Il Nubiloso, by Cesare Ducco; 11. L'Offuscato, by Conte Carlo da S. Bonifacio; 12. L'Oscuro, by Thomaso Porcachi; 13. Il Sepolto, by Lodovico Federici; 14. Il Solingo, by Bartolomeo Arnigio; 15. Il Sommerso, by Diomede Sala; 16. Il Transformato, by Giulio Martinengo.

Each group begins with a full-page print showing the emblem within an elaborate border- apart from the first group, which describes the emblem shown in the title-plate. The text is further decorated with headpieces and initials.