Bibliografia dei Romanzi e Poemi Cavallereschi Italiani. Secondo edizione correta ed accresciuta.
Milano: Paolo Antonio Tosi, 1838. Item #1134 Second edition of this standard work on the early romances and chivalric poetry written by Italian writers during the 15th and 16th centuries. It includes descriptions of 820 editions, with an extensive index of authors and titles included. This is the one of the earliest annotated bibliographies listing the editions with notes of the works of Ludovico Ariosto, cited 241 printed editions. He also describes with annotations editions of the works of , Matteo Maria Boiardo (20 editions), Luigi Pulci (31 editions), Pietro Aretino, Lodovico Dolci, Torquato Tasso and dozens more. The concludes with a useful index and a list of bibliographies used in his research. Gaetano Melzi (1786-1851) began his career as a bookseller, describing incunabula and early Italian books and offering them to libraries and private collectors. He was instrumental in building the Biblioteca Braidense and the private library of the English Collector Frank Hall Standish. His skill at writing biography was soon recognized and his this is his first important publication, followed his still useful work, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani o come che sia aventi relazione all'Italia, Milano, 1848-1859, Brunet, Manuel du Libraire, p, 1593-94. Besterman, World Bibliography of Bibliographies, 1373. (1134) See Tammaro De Marinis biography, “Melzi, Gaetano”, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 1934.
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