BIB_ID
323686
Accession number
MA 462.6
Creator
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
14 lines.
Part of a collection containing autograph letters, poems, and a 46-page portion of "Discorsi del poemo eroico" of Torquato Tasso. Items in the collection have been individually described in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Printed (as "Risposta al signor abate Polverino") in Le lettere di Torquato Tasso (Naples: Rondinella, 1837), vol. 5, p. 230.
Part of a collection containing autograph letters, poems, and a 46-page portion of "Discorsi del poemo eroico" of Torquato Tasso. Items in the collection have been individually described in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Printed (as "Risposta al signor abate Polverino") in Le lettere di Torquato Tasso (Naples: Rondinella, 1837), vol. 5, p. 230.
Provenance
In 1693 in the possession of Dr. Angello di Castro; by the early 19th century in the library of the Neapolitian princely family di Torella; Giuseppe Caracciolo, Prince de Torella; his sale (Paris, Hotel Drouot, 12 June 1896, lot 5, p. 8-10); Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1897.
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