Rime di Adalsio Metoneo Pastore Arcade della Colonia Mariana

Firenze [Florence]: Stamperia di S.A.R. / per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, 1738. Good. Firenze [Florence]: Stamperia di S.A.R. / per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi, 1738. First Edition. Quarto (21cm.); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling; xix,[1],328pp.; woodcut device to title page, initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Ex-19th century library with their spine label and rubber-stamp to title page, parchment worn and soiled with large loss to rear cover fore-edge, lacking endpapers, textblock rather finger-soiled, especially early leaves, small closed tear to title page not approaching text; a Good, sound copy overall.

Lengthy pastoral poem by a pseudonym within a pseudonym: Adalsio Metoneo, a.k.a. Gio. Antonio di S. Anna (who signs the dedication page), a.k.a. Orazio Pedrocchi. The title page is adorned with the pleasingly Arcadian device of the Arcadum Colonia Mariana: a ram on a grassy hill chewing on a branch.