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[Memory] Dolce, Lodovico. Dialogo, Nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere e conserver la memoria. Venice: Gio. Battistaet Marchio Sessa Fratelli, 1552 (but actually 1562). First edition (rare, having the misprinted date and co-printed by Marchio, not Melchiorre). Contemporary wraps. Pegasus woodcut title device; illustrated with woodcuts, several full-page; historiated woodcut initials and head-pieces. Small 8vo. Defective, lacking nine leaves: A5, E1, I4, I5, N1, O3, O4, O6, and O7. Light to moderate damp-soil throughout; title page re-margined; tears to backstrip. Together with: Filippo Garello, Sistema Mnemonico (Florence: Luigi Pezzati, 1834), publisher’s printed wrappers, half title, p. [5] 6-183, [1], 8vo.