TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Il Messaggiero dialogo - Discorso della virtú heroica et della charita - Discorso della virtú feminile e donnesca --Il Gonzaga Secondo. Venice: Bernardo Giunta, 1582. 4 works in one volume [?]as issued, 4° (203 x 140mm), titles with woodcut arms. (Old repair to margin of first title and following preliminary, closed tear along one leaf, last leaf of third work torn through, some mainly marginal waterstaining and spotting, some corners creased.) Contemporary limp vellum (worn and crinkled).

TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Il Messaggiero dialogo - Discorso della virtú heroica et della charita - Discorso della virtú feminile e donnesca --Il Gonzaga Secondo. Venice: Bernardo Giunta, 1582. 4 works in one volume [?]as issued, 4° (203 x 140mm), titles with woodcut arms. (Old repair to margin of first title and following preliminary, closed tear along one leaf, last leaf of third work torn through, some mainly marginal waterstaining and spotting, some corners creased.) Contemporary limp vellum (worn and crinkled).

FIRST EDITION of a little known series of treaties and dialogues by Tasso. Il Messaggiero dialogo was written in 1580 and published without the author's permission in 1582, one year after the publication of Jerusalem Delivered. Dedicated to Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantova, it is bound with Il Gonzaga Secondo, a dialogue on games, chess and gambling with Giulio Cesare Gonzaga. Graesse VI, p. 39.