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September 25-27, 2024

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L’Appollo favorevole, tragicomedia politica, di Iacomo Turamini dedicata al Clariss. Sig. Giovanni Badoaro. Nelle felicissime Nozze della Clariss. Sig. Maria Contarini

TURAMINI, Giacomo (b. 1574)

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  • Condition: Good-
  • Publisher: Giovanni Battista Ciotti
  • Location: Venice
  • Date: 1597
  • Seller SKU: 169

A URBAN TRAGICOMEDY

FOR THE WEDDING BADOER-CONTARINI

12mo (134x73 mm). 65, [1] leaves. Collation: A-E12 F6. The last leaf is a blank. Printer's device on title page. Roman and italic types. Woodcut decorative ornaments and initials. Later flexible vellum. On the last leaf verso manuscript dedication "Alla Serenis.ma Sig.ra Palazzina Anconitana" signed with the letter "G" and followed by the drawing of a heart within a square. Some light marginal staining.

Rare first edition of this tragicomedy in five acts in verse dedicated to Giovanni Badoer on the occasion of his wedding with Maria Contarini.

In the dedication, dated Venice, 20 September 1597, the author states that with this play he introduced something new into drama by bringing love stories far away from woods and rivers (i.e., pastoral and piscatorial dramas) and setting them for the first time in a urban landscape (Rome is the scene): "nel prendere argomento io della mia favola, Cittadino, & nell'introdurre Città, e Cittadini, forsi non ho fatto male" (l. A3v) (cf. L. Riccò, Minotauri, centauri, ermfroditi: misti e mostri teatrali italiani, in: "Norme per lo spettacolo, norme per lo spettatore: teoria e prassi del teatro intorno all' 'Arte Nuevo' ", G. Poggi & M.G. Profeti, Florence, 2011, p. 89).

"Due secoli più tardi per condizione dei personaggi, non principi, non gente d'altissimo affare, ma semplici borghesi, il dramma del Turamini si sarebbe chiamato tragedia urbana" (E. Bertana, La tragedia, Milan, a. 1905, pp. 210-212).

Born in Siena to a wealthy family, Bernardino Turamini decided to take the vows as an observant minor and to change his name to Giacomo. After the conversion his literary activity focused exclusively on religious themes. He later moved to Rome, where he entered the circle of the Barberini family and printed a series of sacred dramas based on the life of saints and biblical heroines.

Edit 16, CNCE52682; USTC, 861388; L.G. Clubb, Italian Plays (1500-1700) in the Folger Library, Florence, 1968, no. 860; O. Pinto, Nuptialia, Florence, 1971, no. 66.

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My main fields of interest are manuscripts, incunabula and 16th century books. A thorough understanding of classical languages (particularly Latin) and of the main languages of Western culture (English, Italian, French, Spanish and German) allows us to deal with books and to utilize the scientific publications printed in these languages. After graduating in classical studies at the University of Bologna, I have deepened my knowledge in the field of antiquarian books, attending courses at the École de l'Institut d'Histoire du Livre of Lyon, concerning physical bibliography and printing types, and at Merton College in Oxford on the study of paper. I have been for several years committee member and treasurer of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Italy and, from 2010 to 2015, its president. I am currently a member of the ILAB's committee and the secretary to the Breslauer prize for bibliography.
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