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[BELLA FRUTTAROLA]. La bella fruttarola romana opera curiosa e bella...sull'aria del ballo di Mantova..

In Lucca. Presso Francesco Bertini, 1823.
8vo. Single half sheet, folded into four. [8]pp. Small woodcut vignette to title. Upper edges unopened, the others uncut, slight spotting, small hole (paper flaw) to lower blank margin of first and second leaf, small clean tear from edge along vertical fold.
The scarce third edition of a charming Italian libretto, first printed in the late seventeenth-century, that tells the story of a beautiful Roman fruit-seller who lures a besotted young man to her house at night, only later disclosing that she is married.

OCLC locates a single copy in the British Isles (BL) and one further in North America (Kentucky).
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref: 17794