DONI, Anton Francesco, Mondi Celesti, Terrestri, et Infernali de gli Academici Pellegrini: Composti dal Doni; Mondo Piccolo, Grande, Misto, Risibile, Imaginato, de Pazzi, & Massimo, Inferno de gli Scolari, de Malmaritati, delle Puttane, & Ruffiani, Soldati, & Capitani poltroni, Dottor cattivi, Legisti, Artisti, de gli Usurai, de Poeti, & Compositori ignoranti. , Appresso Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1562

16mo., seventeenth-century full-vellum binding with contemporaneous handwritten titling to spine, pp. [ff. 8], 426. Final 4 pages missing (but the main text is complete), reparation with minor loss of text to margins of final two leaves, some chipping to heel. Second edition of celebrated philosophical work inspired by Thomas More’s Utopia, by the prominent Italian man of letters Anton Francesco Doni (1513-74) and published under the auspices of the Accademia dei Pellegrini. This is the second impression, the first of which appeared in 1552. Text in Italian.