IN DON QUIXOTE'S LIBRARY - Lot 112

IN DON QUIXOTE'S LIBRARY ARIOSTE / ESPINOSA (Nicolas). LA SECUNDA PARTE DE ORLANDO CON EL VERDADERO SUCESSO DE LA FAMOSSA BATALLA DE RONCEVALLES, fin y muerte de los doze Pares de Francia: dirigida al muy ilustre Señor Don Pedro de Centellas Conde de Oliva... En Anvers, En casa de Martin Nucio, 1557. One volume in-4 (3 ff, 180 pp, 3 pp table), full old soft vellum, endpapers renewed, pencil portrait of man on first board. Light rings at the beginning of the volume. Binding rubbed and handled in modern cardboard slipcase. Third uncommon edition of this setting in Spanish verse (huitains) by Nicolas Espinosa. The unobtainable first edition appeared two years earlier. This extract from Ariosto's work comprises 35 songs, each illustrated with a woodcut (several are repeated). In chapter VI of the first part of Quixote, Cervantes is full of praise for the Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto "if he speaks in his idiom". "For he has robbed it of much of its natural merit, and so will all those who wish to pass THE VERSE BOOKS INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.... "Such is the case with Nicola Espinosa's versified translation, which he condemns to the fire! Palau, 16629 : Salva, 1527 ; Brunet I, 443 : In 35 songs, the author celebrates the glory of Spanish warriors!