[ROME] Caporali, Cesare: Life of Maecenas by Cesare Caporali in the Academy of the Insensati of Perugia. Called the Stemperato ... Third impression. In Venice, by Benardo Giunti: Gio. Batt. Ciotti and his companions, 1608

Format in-12°, mm. 125x70, pp. 163, (5). Complete. Later binding (19th century) in full old parchment with handwritten titles on the spine (faded). Woodworm work taking the last 16 leaves, from the F9 sheet to the back flyleaf, with small losses of text. Chalcographic title page with typographic device. Italic text, in Italian, with woodcut headers, capital letters and tailpieces.

Old original edition of 1608, printed in Venice. Work of the Italian poet Cesare Caporali (1531-1601). The most significant text of Caporali, it was published in Venice in 1604 and dedicated to Ascanio II della Corgna (1571-1606). Biography in tercets, divided into ten chapters, the work narrates the events of the third Roman triumvirate, focusing in particular on the so-called war of Perugia between Octavian and Mark Antony.