Bidspirit auction | Sforza Oddi

Sforza Oddi - Sforza Oddi - Erofilomachia, or The Duel of Love and Friendship, a new comedy., 1582. Added to this new edition is a Discourse by M. Bernardino Pino from Cagli on the composition of the Comedy of our times. In Venice, by Gio. Battista Sessa & brothers, 1582. 16°, Typographical mark on the title page. Full parchment binding, calligraphic title. Comic comedy by the Perugian jurist and playwright Sforza degli Oddi (1540-1611), published in 1572, which had great success and many reprints. See Michel, VI, p. 31 which cites various seventeenth-century editions.