A CONTEMPORARY AND RIVAL OF CERVANTES - Lot 82

A CONTEMPORARY AND RIVAL OF CERVANTES [VEGA CARPIO (Felix Lope de)]. RIMAS HUMANAS Y DIVINAS del Licenciado Tome de BURGUILLOS. Madrid en la Imprenta del Reyno, Alonso Perez, 1634. One volume in-8 (8 ff, 160 folios), full brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated (18th-century Spanish binding), worm work on upper head, wetness on first and last pages. Rare and esteemed first edition. The pinnacle of Baroque poetry and 17th-century Spanish literature. Lope de Vega published this collection under an assumed name: Tomé de Burguillos. En esta colecion se publica la GATOMAQUIA (Le Combat de deux chats pour l'amour d'une chatte) a heroic-comic poem in irregular verse divided into seven songs (1500 verses!). This collection of humorous and burlesque (sometimes coarse) poems was very well received. It is illustrated with a copper-engraved portrait by the Catalan Ribalta. The title bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Sessa, Lope de Vega's patron. Contemporary handwritten comments signed (?) in the margin of two leaves. Palau, 356512; Brunet V, 1110. Bookplate Vieira Pietro. Handwritten note: Porto 10 de julho de 1868.