Sergardi, Lodovico: The satires of Settano reduced to blank vulgar verse. In Spira, 1698. & Rosa, Salvator: Satires dedicated to Settano.

Format in-8°, mm. 145x95, pp. (2), 34, 16 + 150, (6). Contemporary full parchment binding with gold titles on the spine. Sporadic foxing. Collection of 6 satires by the Italian poet Lodovico Sergardi (1660-1726), edition printed in Spoleto in 1698. Printer's device on the front (lily).

Bound at the end (with its own frontispiece) a clandestine edition of the late 17th century of the Satires of Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) dedicated to Settano (pseudonym of L. Sergardi), printed in Amsterdam (actually in Rome) by Severo Protomastix. Woodcut friezes nt

Lodovico Sergardi (Siena, March 27, 1660 – Spoleto, November 7, 1726) was an Italian poet, famous under the pseudonym of Quinto Settano. He lived in Rome, where he was an auditor of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a man of letters, bibliophile, and poet.