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2° (mm 313x211); cc. 104 [recte]. Pergamena coeva con, ai tagli, decorazioni a secco a forma di carte da gioco. Bellissimo esemplare.
A splendid, unsophisticated copy in its original vellum binding. On the three edges of the book, blind-tooled decorations in the shape of playing cards.
Seconda e definitiva edizione (la princeps è del 1540).
Second edition, definitively enlarged and corrected by the Author.
The books provides answers to fifty questions, thirteen of which are to be asked by men, thirteen of which are to be asked by women, and the remainder of which may be asked by both men and women. The allegory of the human quality or defect corresponding to the question must then be sought and a pair of cards drawn. After further steps involving the drawing of further cards (five in total), one reaches an answer taken from one of the great philosophers. The answers of the philosophers were put into terzine by Lodovico Dolce.
The title woodcut, after a design by the Mannerist painter Francesco… Leer más

Size: cm 47x58. Copper engraving. Slightly browned on the outer margins, otherwise in very good condition. The game board includes 63 numbered fields, arranged in a rectangular spiral. Each of them shows an actor/actress in their role, with their respective names and those of their characters, as well as the play they were in and the theatre where it was staged.Among the actresses: Mme Belmont "[dans le] Rôle de Françoise de Foix, Th. Opera Comique", Mme Hervey, "dans le Rôle d'Eméline dans Pauvre Jacque, Th. du Vaudeville", Mme Bellemont, una "Colombine", Mme Denise, Mme Barroyer, Mlle Elomise "dans Manon", etc. The boxes:1): M.r Brunet. Désespoir de Jocrisse. Théatre Montansier.2): M.r Vertpré. Dans le Role de Fin Merle des Filles de Memoires. Th. du Vaudeville.3): M.r Joly. Dans le Role de M.tre Pierre dans au Feu ou les femmes Solitaires. Th. du Vaudeville.4): M.r Brunet. Dans Cadet Roussel Barbier à la Fontaines des Innocents. Th. des Variétés Montansier. 5): Edouard. Role de Poulot… Leer más