[Satire/Moral] Banchieri, Adriano: The nobility of the donkey of Attabalippa from Peru. In Venetia, Barezzo Barezzi, 1592

Format, in-8°, mm. 160x105, pp. (8), 70. Post. silent binding in full decorated paper. Light water stain, sporadic foxing. Front. with typographical mark. Trimmed edges, touching the text at the upper margin. Woodcut capital letters.

Title: The Nobility of the Donkey by Attabalippa from Peru, a Province of the New World, translated into Italian. In which, after having described the nature of the lion and other famous beasts, preferring the donkey above all, all its faculties, properties, virtues and excellences are narrated with such facetious and pleasant discourse that the reader, with his gentle pleasure, without asinine boredom, fully learns the utility, the comforts and the conveniences that can be derived from the donkey. With a table of the most notable things.
In Venice, by Barezzo Barezzi, 1592 (there is another edition in Pauia, 1592 by Andrea Viani).

Work of Adriano Banchieri, born Tommaso Banchieri (Bologna, September 3, 1568 – 1634), was an Italian musician, composer, poet and monk of the late Renaissance and early Baroque era. Also known as Adriano da Bologna and by the pseudonyms: Attabalibba dal Perù, Camillo Scaligeri della Fratta and Dissonante, Banchieri is an emblematic representative of the great vivacity of the cultural movements of 17th-century Europe, the result of a culture based essentially on the Latin language and music, without neglecting a new interest in national languages.