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Title: Il Goffredo ovvero Gerusalemme liberata
Author:
Written by Torquato Tasso (Italian, Sorrento 1544–1595 Rome)
Designer:
Frontispieces based on designs by Bernardo Castello (Italian, Genoa (?) 1557–1629 Genoa)
Designer:
Additional illustrations designed by Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice)
Etcher:
Illustrations etched by Giacomo Leonardis (Italian, 1723–1794)
Publisher:
Published by Antonio Groppo (Italian, 1606–1680)
Artist:
Portrait of Tasso based on one by Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
Date: 1760–61
Medium: Printed book with intaglio illustration.
Dimensions: 12 11/16 x 9 1/16 in. (32.2 x 23 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1996
Object Number: 1996.282.1–.2
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