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Lot 449: ROSSETTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA.

Est: £2,500 GBP - £3,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 09, 2005

Item Overview

Description

Dello scalco... nel quale si contengono le qualità di uno scalco perfetto, & tutti i carichi suoi, con diversi ufficiali a lui sottoposti... con gran numero di banchetti alla Italiana, & alla Alemana... Ferrara: Domenico Mammarello, 1584

Condition Note: 4to (192 x 138mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, modern vellum, endpapers wormed, a few small wormholes on title-page

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Vicaire col.752; Paleari Henssler p.649; Censimento 16 CNCE 35919
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition. Rosetti was scalco to Lucrezia d'Este, duchess of Urbino, to whom he dedicated this work. The three books contain rules for the maestro della casa, a list of monthly menus for banquets, and a list of recipes arranged by ingredient. It includes the earliest known recipe for tortelli alla zucca.

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