1674 La Galeria del Cavalier Marino. Italian Renaissance Art in Poetry. Leather

  

1674 La Galeria del Cavalier Marino. Italian Renaissance Art in Poetry. Distinta in Pitture, & Sculture. Part 1 and Part 2 (Two parts in a single volume). Full leather covers overs boards with ribbed spine, gilt spine title and decorations, 16mo.

(5.25 inches tall), 312 pages + index. In the Galeria, the important Italian poet, Giambattista Marino, attempts to recreate in verse the famous paintings and sculptures of the Italian Renaissance. The work was published originally in 1620. It includes poetic description of hundreds of masterpieces by virtually every important painter of the Italian Renaissance. Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 - 26 March 1625) was an Italian poet who was born in Naples.

He is most famous for his long epic L'Adone. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". He is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later known as Secentismo (17th century) or Marinismo (19th century), characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits. Marino's conception of poetry, which exaggerated the artificiality of Mannerism, was based on an extensive use of antithesis and a whole range of wordplay, on lavish descriptions and a sensuous musicality of the verse, and enjoyed immense success in his time, comparable to that of Petrarch before him.

He was widely imitated in Italy, France (where he was the idol of members of the précieux school, such as Georges Scudéry, and the so-called libertins such as Tristan l'Hermite), Spain (where his greatest admirer was Lope de Vega) and other Catholic countries, including Portugal and Poland, as well as Germany, where his closest follower was Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau and Holland where Constantijn Huygens was a great admirer. In England he was admired by John Milton and translated by Richard Crashaw.

He remained the reference point for Baroque poetry as long as it was in vogue. In the 18th and 19th centuries, while being remembered for historical reasons, he was regarded as the source and exemplar of Baroque "bad taste". With the 20th century renaissance of interest in similar poetic procedures, his work has been reevaluated: it was closely read by Benedetto Croce and Carlo Calcaterra and has had numerous important interpreters including Giovanni Pozzi, Marziano Guglielminetti, Marzio Pieri and Alessandro Martini. The book was apparently rebound during the 1700s at which time the top margins had to be severely trimmed, leading to partial loss of the page headers and numbers; however, there is no other loss of any text. The Covers have some wear at the spine ends and splitting at the spine joints, fading of gilt decorations at lower spine. The endpapers and pastedowns have discolored margins. The text is complete and intact apart from the trimming loss at the upper margins.

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• Subject: Art & Photography
• Topic: Renaissance Italy
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Binding: Leather
• Place of Publication: Venicee
• Year Printed: 1674
• Author: Giambattista Marino
• Language: Italian