Five-act Renaissance commedia in Italian prose, probably the Grasso play known to have been performed in Urbino during Carnival in 1513, especially since the characters are natives of Urbino, and, as stated in the colophon, the play was transcribed from a copy belonging to Gieronimo Staccoli of Urbino

First printed in 1524

Colophon: "Finisce la comedia chiamata Eutichia, di Nicola Crasso [sic] Mantouano, poeta non meno ingenioso che lepido & festiuo. Trascritta dallo essemplare del magnifico messer Gieronimo Stuccoli, gentilhuomo Vrbinate. Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino, MDXXX."

Signatures: A-F (F blank)

Woodcuts: historiated t.p. border; Zoppino's device on last p. (St. Nicholas on the bishop's throne, holding three balls, his traditional emblem, with Zoppino's initial "N")

In italic type

Clubb, L.G. Italian plays

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600

Sander

Allacci, L. Drammaturgia

EDIT 16

Spec. Coll. copy: 18th-century mottled tan calf; triple gilt fillet; ornamental gilt spine; marbled endpapers; edges sprinkled red; green silk bookmark. Purchase, Maggs Bros., 1999

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