13. Borghini, Raffaello.
Vol. I. IL / RIPOSO / DI / RAFFAELLO BORGHINI. / VOLUME
PRIMO. / MILANO / Dalla Società Tipografica de'Classici
Italiani, / contrada di s. Margherita, No. 1118. / ANNO 1807.
8vo. Half title ([i]); title page ([iii]); foreword (v-ix); preface by
Monsignor Bottari (xi-xxiv); text (1-288); errata (1 unnumbered p.).
Vol. II. IL / RIPOSO / . . . / VOLUME SECONDO. / . . .
8vo. Half title ([1]); title page ([3]); text (5-261); errata and notes
(1 leaf).
Vol. III. IL / RIPOSO / . . . / VOLUME TERZO. / . . .
8vo. Half title ([1]); title page ([3]); text (5-234); index (235-58);
errata (1 unnumbered p.).
Raffaello Borghini (1541-88) was born in Florence. He wrote comedies
such as the Diana pietosa, 1585, as well as Il Riposa, which was first issued
in 1584.
Il Riposo, concerning Italian artists, was partially drawn from
Vasari (No. 122) and B. Varchi, but it has, in addition, interesting information
on Florentine mannerism. It is a work in four books bound in
three volumes, printed partly because of "la squisitezza della lingua," as
the publisher says.
Although a set was in the University's library before Jefferson
made up his want list and was well identified in the 1828 Catalogue,
that set did not survive. It has recently been replaced by the present set,
the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
U. Va.
*N7420.B7.1807
