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Malipiero, Girolamo. Il Petrarcha spirituale, ristampato nuouamente, et dall’ authore corretto. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, September 1538
Revised second edition of a rewriting of the entire Canzoniere, substituting divine themes and religious images for Francesco Petrarca’s secular themes and amatory images (donna becomes Madonna, amore denotes divine Amore, etc.). Ugo Rozzo has termed it “the mother of all expurgations,” as just 17% of the verses of the sonnets and 26% of the canzoni emerge unscathed (“Italian Literature on the Index,” in Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy, Cambridge, 2011, p. 210). The work was undertaken by a Franciscan friar (ca. 1480–ca. 1547) independently of the Church—Petrarca’s poems were not banned, only some of his polemical verses and anti-papal letters—and first published in 1536. It was reprinted seven times from 1545 through 1587, initiating a flood of imitations.
Twelve bindings with versions of the name “Marcantonio Totila” lettered on their lower covers are presently recorded; seven (including the present) were identified by Anthony Hobson in “Bookbinding in Bologna” (for the other six, see Note below, following References). They cover fifteen books printed between 1520 and 1546 (the great majority in 1542–1546), at Venice (eleven), Rome, Florence, Lyon, and Basel. Two books are in Latin, and the rest in Italian. The bindings were made in four or more workshops and vary greatly in appearance, some being decorated by an arabesque plaque, others individually tooled, however the center of the upper cover is invariably left empty for a title in gilt, and the lower cover for Totila’s name. On both covers the lettering sometimes overruns the available space, giving the impression that it was added to a book already bound for display in a bookshop.
Marcantonio Totila (Totile, Totili, Totellis, Totilae) was a member of the guild of apothecaries (Compagnia de’ Speziali), one of the most prominent of the twelve guilds that formed the merchants’ tribunal (Foro dei Mercanti) in Bologna. In October 1529, he was the sole representative of the Speziali in a procession of high-ranking officials and “Massari delle Arti” sent to greet Pope Clement VII as he arrived in Bologna for the forthcoming coronation of Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor. He was named in a criminal case in 1539, accused together with dozens of other Bolognese citizens of having lent to usury. He appears in the accounts of the Fabbriceria di San Petronio in 1546, as a supplier of wine to the architects Giulio Romano and Cristoforo Lombardo. Marcantonio’s son, Francesco (1503–1556), is mentioned in the same accounts, for facilitating payments in 1543 and 1546 for the rival project of Vignola. Francesco had received a degree in civil and canon law at Bologna (30 June 1531), commenced a distinguished legal career in Bologna and in Rome, and died a Count Palatine. None of the recorded volumes appear to have any mark of Francesco’s ownership. 
This binding was assigned by Anthony Hobson to a Bolognese shop he named “The Binder of Ulrich Fugger’s Bible” (from a copy of the Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, 1543, Latin Bible, with Fugger’s name on the binding and ownership inscription of Bologna 1545, now Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. S. 22). Hobson linked 14 bindings to this shop, including also Marcantonio Totila’s copy of Dioscorides, and speculated that it may have been associated with the local branch of the Gioliti publishers. The other bindings for Marcantonio Totila were credited by Hobson to these shops: “The Second Achille Bocchi binder” (Fanti), “The ‘Pflug and Ebeleben Binder’” (Ficino, Manuzio), and a nameless shop using a two-part plaque (Cornazzano). Hobson’s seventh volume (Dubois) was not assigned.
On this volume, the lettering MARCO AN | TOTILA has been obliterated (by the original binder) by over-tooling, and “Constantia” has been lettered in gold on the spine. Another binding from the shop of the “The Binder of Ulrich Fugger’s Bible” has the same mysterious spine lettering. A copy of Il Petrarcha con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello (Venice: Giovanni Giolito De Ferrari, 1538), now in the Russian State Library, has its upper cover lettered in the center “Il Petrarcha del Vellu.” and the spine (from bottom to top) C | O | N | ST | AN | T | I | A. Presumably, the binder had on his bench simultaneously two volumes of the 1538 Petrarca (those now in Genoa and Moscow; see no. 11 below) and this volume of the 1538 Malipiero, and muddled their finishing.
Additions to Hobson's List of Bindings for Marcantonio Totila 
(8) Luigi Alamanni, Opere toscane al christianissimo re Francesco primo (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1532–1533). — Marcantonio Totila (supralibros). — unidentified owner, inscription “A B.” — Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Tirnoleone, Count Libri (Libri-Carrucci) (1803-1869); Commendeur & L.C. Silvestre with P. Jannet, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. L**, Paris, 28 June-4 August 1847, lot 865 — unidentified owner - bought in sale (FF 81) — A. Franck, Catalogue d’une belle collection de livres rares et curieux principalement en langue Italienne, Espagnole, Provençale, Française, Grecque, Latine, etc. (Paris [1848]), p.2 item 10 (FF 100) — Florimond Lévêque & Victor Tilliard, Catalogue de livres, la plupart rares et curieux provenant de la bibliothèque de M. Libri Carucci, Paris, 12-28 April 1855, lot 711 — Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale (1822-1897) — Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château, VIII-C-030.Léopold Delisle, Chantilly. Le Cabinet des livres. Imprimés antérieurs au milieu du XVIe siècle (Paris 1905), nos. 28-29.
(9) Donato Giannotti, Libro de la republica de Vinitiani (Rome: Antonio Blado, 1542), bound with: Gaspare Contarini, La republica, e i magistrati di Vinegia (Venice: Girolamo Scoto, 1544), bound with: Girolamo Garimberti, De Regimenti publici de la città (Venice: Girolamo Scoto, October 1544). Marcantonio Totila (supralibros). — Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a valuable and important collection of rare, curious and standard books and manuscripts, London, 8-9 May 1868, lot 50 — Thomas Boone, London - bought in sale (£1) — Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale (1822-1897) — Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château, VIII-E-025-(2).Delisle, op. cit., no. 825; De Marinis, op. cit., no. 1319.
(10) Giovanni Antonio Pantera, Monarchia del nostro Signor Iesu Christo, di messer Gioan’Antonio Panthera parentino (Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1545). Bibliotheca Brookeriana (to be offered in a future sale).
(11) Francesco Petrarca, Il Petrarcha con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello (Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti, for Alessandro Vellutello & Giovanni Giolito De Ferrari, 1538). Marcantonio Totila (supralibros) — Anton Giulio Brignole Sale (1605-1662) — Genoa, Biblioteca Berio, BCBS B.S.XVI.B.87.Laura Malfatto, Da Tesori privati a bene pubblico: le collezioni antiche della Biblioteca Berio di Genova (Ospedaletto [Pisa] 1998), no. 11.(n.b. A second copy of this work, with “Constantia” lettered in gold on the spine, was bequeathed by Carl D. Becher (1857–1934) to the Deutsche Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, confiscated 1939-1945, and is now in the Russian State Library; see Tatiana Alekseevna Dolgodrova, Katalog khudozhestvennykh pereplëtov sobraniia Karla Bekhera [Moscow, 2007], p. 206, no. 239.)
(12) Francesco Patrizi, De discorsi del reuerendo monsignor Francesco Patritij sanese vescouo gaiettano, sopra alle cose appartenenti ad una città libera, e famiglia nobile; tradotti in lingua toscana da Giouanni Fabrini fiorentino, à beneficio de figliuoli di messer Antonio Massimi nobile romano, m. Domenico, e m. Horatio, libri noue (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1545). Marcantonio Totila (supralibros). — Carl D. Becher (1857–1934) — Leipzig, Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Bö M 206/8°
8vo (153 x 101 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A–V8 X4: 164 leaves (colophon on X3r; X4 blank). Portrait of Petrarch on title-page, lettered: Francisci vera effigies, & imago Petrarcae. (Title-page a trifle soiled.)
binding: Bolognese red goatskin (157 x 110 mm), ca. 1538, by “The Binder of Ulrich Fugger’s Bible,” richly gilt frame within 2 gilt fillets and central panel filled with various solid tools around an open center, lettered on the upper cover IL PE | TRARCHA | .SPIR. and on lower cover MARCO AN |TOTILA” (obliterated by the original binder by overtooling), spine with 3 full and 4 half bands and “CONSTANTIA” in gilt running down spine, remnants of 4 pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered with small knotwork tools. (Slightly darkened, joints and corners lightly restored.)
provenance: Marcantonio Totila (supralibros [obliterated]) — “Constantia” (supralibros[?] lettered on spine; unidentified) — “Franciscus Gianibellus” (Giambelli) (seventeenth-century inscription in red ink on title-page) — William Bateman, FSA (1787–1835; armorial exlibris “W.m Bateman, F.A.S., of Middleton-by-Youlgrave, in the County of Derby”) — Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris (Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de M. G. Gancia composée en partie de livres de la première bibliothèque du Cardinal Mazarin et d’ouvrages précieux, Paris, 27 April–2 May 1868, lot 560; Delbergue-Cormont & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, Catalogue des livres et manuscrits rares et précieux composant le cabinet de M. Gancia, Paris, 11–12 April 1872, lot 222), purchased by — unidentified owner (FF 47) — Capt. Charles Ludovic Lindsay (1862–1925; ink-stamp) — John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (1886–1940; acquisition inscription, dated 1925) — Manners, family library at Belvoir Castle (ink-stamp) — Marlborough Rare Books, London (Catalogue 146, [1992], item 3, £12,500); Catalogue 160, [1995], item 6, £7500). acquisition: Purchased from Marlborough Rare Books, London, 1996. 
references: Edit16 28605; USTC 839765; Casali, Marcolini, no. 33 (“più rara della prima, ed anche più corretta”); for the binding, see A. Hobson, “Bookbinding in Bologna,” in Schede umanistiche, n.s., 1 (1998), pp. 147–176 (p. 171 no. 7); A. Hobson & L. Quaquarelli, Legature bolognesi del rinascimento (Bologna, 1998), pp. 26–29 (p. 27, no. 7).
Note: the other six Totila bindings identified by Hobson are:Jacques Dubois, De medicamentorum simplicium delectu, praeparationibus, mistionis modo, libri tres (Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1543), p. 154;Sigismondo Fanti, Triompho di Fortuna (Venice: Agostino Zani, 1527), p. 168;Marsilio Ficino, Tomo primo delle diuine lettere del gran Marsilio Ficino tradotte in lingua Toscana (Venice: Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1546), p. 171;Dioscorides Pedianus, De medica materia libri sex (Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542), p. 173;Paolo Manuzio, Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, et eccellentissimi ingegni (Venice: Heirs of Aldo I Manuzio 1545), bound with: Antonio de Guevara, Libro primo delle littere dell’ill. signor don Antonio di Guevara (Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 8 April 1545), p.174;Antonio Cornazzano, De re militari (Florence: Heirs of Filippo Giunta, 15 May 1520).