BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Delle rime . Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548.
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Delle rime . Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548. 12° (129 x 70mm). Italic letter on blue paper. Woodcut device on title repeated on verso of final leaf, portrait of Bembo on A3v, historiated opening initial. 19th-century blue morocco by Binda, Milan, covers with alternating fleurs-de-lys and crowned letter ‘A’, the insignia of marchese Girolamo d’Adda, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered and tooled with the same insignia, gilt turn-ins, marbled and gilt edges (joints neatly repaired, spine and corners a little rubbed at extremities). Provenance : marchese Girolamo d’Adda Salvaterra (1815-1881; binding, possibly one of the books sold to Charles Fairfax Murray who published Il Catalogo dei libri posseduti da Charles Fairfax Murray provenienti dalla biblioteca del marchese G . D . in 1902) — Henri et Francois Chandon de Briailles. A REMARKABLE COPY PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER OF BEMBO’S RIME. THE ADDA-FAIRFAX MURRAY-CHANDON DE BRIAILLES COPY. Third edition, revised by the author, and printed on blue paper. Gabriel Giolito's printing press was one of the most renowned in 16th-century Venice celebrated for its typography. Apparently initiated by Aldus Manutius the practice of printing a few deluxe copies of an edition on blue paper was adopted at Venice, before spreading across Italy. Books printed on tinted paper often display a small number of textual variants when compared with copies printed on ordinary paper. This copy, according to Salvatore Bongi, resembles one kept at the library of Parma, as regards quires A, B and F. Pietro Bembo, scholar, humanist and cardinal, was famous for his mastery of the Latin language, but also for his refined skills in vernacular Italian. In the Rime , which became extraordinarily successful and popular during the 16th century and saw about 30 editions between 1530 and 1560, Bembo presents 165 poems, mostly in the form of sonnets that were largely inspired by Petrach's Canzoniere in form and style. The majority of the poems deal with erotic and romantic subjects, but they also include occasional verse. Adams B-606.
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Delle rime . Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548.
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Delle rime . Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548. 12° (129 x 70mm). Italic letter on blue paper. Woodcut device on title repeated on verso of final leaf, portrait of Bembo on A3v, historiated opening initial. 19th-century blue morocco by Binda, Milan, covers with alternating fleurs-de-lys and crowned letter ‘A’, the insignia of marchese Girolamo d’Adda, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered and tooled with the same insignia, gilt turn-ins, marbled and gilt edges (joints neatly repaired, spine and corners a little rubbed at extremities). Provenance : marchese Girolamo d’Adda Salvaterra (1815-1881; binding, possibly one of the books sold to Charles Fairfax Murray who published Il Catalogo dei libri posseduti da Charles Fairfax Murray provenienti dalla biblioteca del marchese G . D . in 1902) — Henri et Francois Chandon de Briailles. A REMARKABLE COPY PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER OF BEMBO’S RIME. THE ADDA-FAIRFAX MURRAY-CHANDON DE BRIAILLES COPY. Third edition, revised by the author, and printed on blue paper. Gabriel Giolito's printing press was one of the most renowned in 16th-century Venice celebrated for its typography. Apparently initiated by Aldus Manutius the practice of printing a few deluxe copies of an edition on blue paper was adopted at Venice, before spreading across Italy. Books printed on tinted paper often display a small number of textual variants when compared with copies printed on ordinary paper. This copy, according to Salvatore Bongi, resembles one kept at the library of Parma, as regards quires A, B and F. Pietro Bembo, scholar, humanist and cardinal, was famous for his mastery of the Latin language, but also for his refined skills in vernacular Italian. In the Rime , which became extraordinarily successful and popular during the 16th century and saw about 30 editions between 1530 and 1560, Bembo presents 165 poems, mostly in the form of sonnets that were largely inspired by Petrach's Canzoniere in form and style. The majority of the poems deal with erotic and romantic subjects, but they also include occasional verse. Adams B-606.
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