Sperone Speroni. DIALOGHI DEL SIG. SPERON SPERONI NOBILE PADOUANO. DI NUOUO RICORRETTI. Bound together with ORATIONI DEL SIG. SPERON SPERONI DOTTOR ET CAVALIER PADOUANO. Venice: Appresso Roberto Meietti, 1596. Limp parchment, manuscript on spine. Two books bound together in a single volume with separate pagination and foliation. 4to; *4 A-4G4 (G4blank); A4 A-2D4; [8], 596 (i.e. 604), [4]pp.; [8], 215, [1]pp. EDIT16 30949 and 30951; USTC 857248 and 857249.

8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.

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

Sperone Speroni (Padua, 1500-1588) was a professor, writer, humanist, and philosopher. He is best known for his dialogues on various topics such as love, birth, family, language, and rhetoric.

Boards with light overall wear and discoloration, minor staining to boards, several bands cut at joints, manuscript title slightly faded, lacking ties; nearly complete separation from textblock starting at head, lacking paste-downs and front endpaper with tears; pages lightly toned with foxing concentrated at margins and fore-edge, occasional wormholes/trails throughout, damp staining common at corners in first book with larger damp stains at outer margin on several leaves of second book; occasional light grime, small stain, or minor loss not impacting text, *3v with stamp.