Riprove delle particelle poetiche sopra Dante disputate Dal Sig. Ieronimo Zoppio Bolognese... scritte nell’Idioma Toscano di Siena. All’Illustrissimo, ed Eccell.mo Signore il Sig. Francesco Colonna, Principe di Palestrina...

4° (226 x 141 mm). Collation: A-Y⁴. 175, [1] pages. Roman and italic type. On the title-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee of the edition, Francesco Colonna. On fol. Y4v woodcut printer's device. Woodcut decorated initials. Bound in antique vellum. Smooth spine, with inked title. A very good copy.

Provenance: Paolo Cagna Ninchi (ex-libris on the front pastedown); Livio Ambrogio collection.

First and unique edition of this polemical work, written by the Sienese scholar Bellisario Bulgarini (1539-1619) in response to the Ragionamenti in difesa di Dante et del Petrarca, published in 1583 by the Bolognese Girolamo Zoppio.