Dottori (Carlo de') Aristodemo Tragedia, rare first edition, Padua, Matteo Cardorino, 1657.

Dottori (Carlo de') Aristodemo Tragedia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some light staining and spotting, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Salvioli 356; Allacci 110], small 4to, Padua, Matteo Cardorino, 1657.

⁂ Rare first edition of this drama, called by Peter Broad in The Cambridge History of Italian Literature the 'acknowledged masterpiece of Seicento tragedy' (pp.331-332, Cambridge, 1999). It was first performed on 31st May, 1655 by twelve Paduan gentlemen, with Sertorio Orsato taking the lead role.