Binding: old limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredges. Remains of paper label at head of spine with title, and a second at foot with shelf mark (D / 99 / secondo). Shelf mark repeated on front pastedown, together with another: Caps. LXXXIV. 38. Title on lower edge: LA ZUCA IN SPAGNOLO

Stamp in black ink at foot of p. 3: BIBLIOTECA / MALVEZZI-MEDICI. Indistinct armorial stamp on recto of back free endpaper

Imprint from colophon

Architectural title border with figures and 2 gourds. Fifteen allegorical woodcut ill. (ca. 78 mm. square within double line borders). They are selected from the 50 that appeared in Marcolini's Sorti of 1540. The selection in the present work differs slightly from that in the original Italian ed., published by Marcolini earlier in 1551; see Mortimer

Contains Spanish translations of the first 3 pts. of the Italian 1st ed. (Cicalamentos, Baias, Chacheras). The text ends with the poem Glosa sobre el romance, que comienza mas enuidia he de vos Conde:que manzilla, ni pesar

Includes index

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

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