1604 SCARCE Book LA GIERUSALEMME Torquato Tosso Art woodcuts: Bernardo Castello

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1604 - SCARCE RARE Book 408 Year old bookLa GiervsalemmeWritten By: Torquato Tassoin: ItalianOriginal Art Woodcut Engravings by: Bernardo Castello Measures about 5 1/2" x 3 1/2"x 1 1/4" thickThis book is in it's Original Language: Italian. This book is also known as: Jerusalem Delivered translated from La Gerusalemme liberata Read below for additional information about this book, the author, and the artist.Book is in overall good condition considering it is over 400 years old. Book is worn and age discolored and some staining, has corner bumps, chipping, etc. There is some writing on the first inside blank page. (Look at the Pictures)LATER versions of this book sell for over $10 & $30 thousand dollars. I have not been able to find this beautifully illustrated 1604 version for sale anywhere, AND YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE ONE AGAIN (especially in this condition) SO YOU BETTER BID WHILE YOU CAN!!! Quite frankly it belongs in a University or Museum Library. Very Low Starting Price of ONLY $299.99 & NO RESERVE!!! Look at ALL the pictures, as they are part of the description!It's a GREAT Example, and just a beautiful looking book. CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS. I have 2 other RARE Books from the mid 1700's ending on October 14th. Check 'Em Out, they are Really Cool! CHECK OUT My Other Auctions, I usually Have some GREAT Antique or Vintage or Collectible Books for Sale! Here is a litttle about the Author from Wikipedia: Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered , 1580 ), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade , during the siege of Jerusalem . He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe. Early lifeBorn in Sorrento , he was the son of Bernardo Tasso , a nobleman of Bergamo and an epic and lyric poet of considerable fame in his day, and his wife Porzia de Rossi, a noblewoman from Tuscany . His father had for many years been secretary in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, prince of Salerno , and his mother was closely connected with the most illustrious Neapolitan families. When the prince of Salerno came into collision with the Spanish government of Naples, was outlawed, and was deprived of his hereditary fiefs, Tasso's father shared in this his patron's fate. He was proclaimed a rebel to the state, together with his son Torquato, and his patrimony was sequestered. These things happened during the boy's childhood. In 1552 he was living with his mother and his only sister Cornelia at Naples, pursuing his education under the Jesuits , who had recently opened a school there. The precocity of intellect and the religious fervour of the boy attracted general admiration. At the age of eight he was already famous.Soon after this date he joined his father, who then resided in great poverty, an exile and without occupation, in Rome . News reached them in 1556 that Porzia Tasso had died suddenly and mysteriously at Naples. Her husband was firmly convinced that she had been poisoned by her brother with the object of getting control over her property.As it subsequently happened, Porzia's estate never descended to her son; and the daughter Cornelia married below her birth, at the instigation of her maternal relatives. Tasso's father was a poet by predilection and a professional courtier. Therefore, when an opening at the court of Urbino was offered in 1557, Bernardo Tasso gladly accepted it.The young Torquato, a handsome and brilliant lad, became the companion in sports and studies of Francesco Maria della Rovere , heir to the duke of Urbino. At Urbino a society of cultivated men pursued the aesthetical and literary studies which were then in vogue. Bernardo Tasso ... read more

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