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Complete copy of Errata, Register and Colophon, but in good state of conservation.
First edition of this curious literary apocrypha, a songbook composed by Colonna in which he imagines that Laura responds lyrically to Petrarch with 366 compositions, followed by "Triumphs" mirroring those of Petrarch up to tracing them in their poetic forms. Colonna, a Roman aristocrat and man of letters not to be confused with the famous Renaissance leader (there is very little data on his biography), is the author of only this printed work, which was re-edited in Venice in 1740.
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