3.1 Scope and Contents Note Printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. Alternate pages numbered. The different sections (dedication, 1st part, 2nd part, table of contents) are introduced by a little ornamental capital, containing modestly erotic scenes. The work is prefaced by a dedicatory letter to Ercole d’Este II, the duke of Ferrara (and son of the famed Lucrezia Borgia), by Anton Giacomo Corso, followed by a dedicatory poem to the same duke, by Giraldi himself. After the text proper follows a sonnet by Corso...