Ludovico Ariosto

et con le allegorie a ciascun canto, di Tomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Aretino. Diligentemente corretto, & di nuove figure adornato. Con la tavola di tutte le cose, che nell'opera si contengono, In Venetia: per Domenico Louisa, 1713. In-8° (170x120 mm). 462, [1] p. Title page frieze with author's portrait, friezes, endpieces, and woodcut vignettes, text in two columns. From p. 415 onward, with its own title page, "I cinque canti di M. Lodovico Ariosto." Hardback with partially erased manuscript title, edges spattered with red. Foxing, browning, trimmed pages

First eighteenth-century edition of Ariosto's masterpiece, adorned with many delightful woodcut vignettes illustrating the various cantos