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Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1578.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, eighteenth-century sheep (minor worm damage to front cover), spine with raised bands in four compartments, minimal gilt decoration, citron leather lettering piece in second compartment from head (slight defects), gilt letter, text-block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut devices of Marescotti on title-page and colophon leaf. Text in italic. Woodcut initials, headpieces, and tailpieces. Typographical headpiece. Italic type. Minor stains on title and in preliminary leaves. Final line on title page cropped. Overall in good to very good condition. Contemporary or early ink inscription at top of **1 (the beginning of the table of contents): "Conceptus sacados de la obra y tabla." Old ink inscription in lower blank margin of title page shaved. (31, 1 blank l.), 442 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of this extended diatribe against ill-mannered and ill-bred common folk, demonstrating by reverse example the qualities that gentlemen should display. Aldana later revised this work and translated it into Spanish, publishing it in 1591 under the title Invectiva contra el vulgo y su maledicencia.Born in Valencia, Aldana first entered the service of the Medici family, later moving to Milan to serve the Grand Constable Velasco. Although Aldana published two volumes of his own sonnets, he is perhaps better known for posthumously editing the poems of his brother, Francisco de Aldana.*** Palau 6320. Nicolas Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova, I, 256. Not in HSA. Not in Salvá or Heredia, which cite other works by the author and the Spanish edition of 1591. Not in Ticknor Catalogue, which cites only the Madrid, 1855 edition. KVK (51 databases searched) locates copies at Bibliothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Biblioteca Cantonale Lugano , Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Mannheim Universitätsbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Biblioteca Nacional de España. NUC: ICN (collating [64], 442, [4] pp.), MH, DFo.