Tradimento della morte di Giuliano de' Medici . [Florence: Dominican convent of nuns at S. Jacopo di Ripoli, not after 9 October 1478]. Chancery 4° (196 x 130 mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1/1r title: Qvesto e il tradimento della morte di Givliano , incipit: O Giesv christo nostro saluatore elquale da traditore non ti ghuardasti , 1/8v Finito el lamento di Givliano deMedici ). 8 leaves, 1/2-4 signed "ii-iiii". 30 lines. Type 2:117R. (Some soiling and foxing, last leaf rehinged, tiny rust-hole to f. 7.) Modern russet morocco. Provenance : Giuseppe Martini ( Catalogo 1934, no. 228). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF TWO COPIES KNOWN, of a popular poem in terza rima narrating the famous Pazzi assassination attempt on Lorenzo de' Medici, during which his younger brother Giuliano was killed. On 26 April 1478, with the tacit approval of Pope Sixtus IV, a conspiracy of Lorenzo de' Medici's enemies, consisting of the Pope's nephew Girolamo Riario, various members of the Pazzi clan, and Francesco Salviati Archbishop of Pisa, sent assassins to attack Lorenzo and Giuliano while they were attending high mass in the Duomo. After a desperate struggle Giuliano was killed but Lorenzo escaped. He lost no time in wreaking bloody vengeance on the Archbishop, the Pazzi clan, and their followers, who were furiously hunted down by the mob, loyal to Lorenzo, and variously tortured, hanged from the windows of the Medici palace, or dragged through the streets before being thrown into the Arno. The result was over 270 deaths and the excommunication of the entire Florentine state, leading to a diplomatic crisis, the involvement of the European powers, and a brief war. The poem recites the events of the assault and its immediate aftermath in a stark and realistic tone, lamenting the murder of the gentle Giuliano, and comparing the betrayal of the Medici brothers to celebrated betrayals of Antiquity, that of Troy by Antenor, and of Caesar by Brutus and Cassius. The only other recorded copy of the present edition is an imperfect copy in the Siena Biblioteca Communale. The press of the Convent of Dominican nuns of S. Jacopo di Ripoli is one of the most interesting Florentine presses of this period. Under the direction of the conventual procurator Fra Domenico da Pistoia and their confessor Fra Piero da Pisa, the nuns, already skilled in calligraphy and manuscript illumination, took up printing in 1476, and remained extremely active for the next 8 years, issuing over seventy editions before the death of Fra Domenico and the closing of the press in 1484. The sisters seem to have handled the composition and other press-work, subcontracting the type-cutting and striking of matrices to local professionals, including the printers Johannes Petri, Nicolaus Laurentii, and De Alopa. Most interestingly, the press's day-book survives, showing not only the wide variety of jobs undertaken, but also the extent of small single-sheet pamphlets in their output, many of which, like the present poem, have survived in one or two copies, if at all. H 9842 (?); IGI 9703.
Tradimento della morte di Giuliano de' Medici . [Florence: Dominican convent of nuns at S. Jacopo di Ripoli, not after 9 October 1478]. Chancery 4° (196 x 130 mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1/1r title: Qvesto e il tradimento della morte di Givliano , incipit: O Giesv christo nostro saluatore elquale da traditore non ti ghuardasti , 1/8v Finito el lamento di Givliano deMedici ). 8 leaves, 1/2-4 signed "ii-iiii". 30 lines. Type 2:117R. (Some soiling and foxing, last leaf rehinged, tiny rust-hole to f. 7.) Modern russet morocco. Provenance : Giuseppe Martini ( Catalogo 1934, no. 228). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF TWO COPIES KNOWN, of a popular poem in terza rima narrating the famous Pazzi assassination attempt on Lorenzo de' Medici, during which his younger brother Giuliano was killed. On 26 April 1478, with the tacit approval of Pope Sixtus IV, a conspiracy of Lorenzo de' Medici's enemies, consisting of the Pope's nephew Girolamo Riario, various members of the Pazzi clan, and Francesco Salviati Archbishop of Pisa, sent assassins to attack Lorenzo and Giuliano while they were attending high mass in the Duomo. After a desperate struggle Giuliano was killed but Lorenzo escaped. He lost no time in wreaking bloody vengeance on the Archbishop, the Pazzi clan, and their followers, who were furiously hunted down by the mob, loyal to Lorenzo, and variously tortured, hanged from the windows of the Medici palace, or dragged through the streets before being thrown into the Arno. The result was over 270 deaths and the excommunication of the entire Florentine state, leading to a diplomatic crisis, the involvement of the European powers, and a brief war. The poem recites the events of the assault and its immediate aftermath in a stark and realistic tone, lamenting the murder of the gentle Giuliano, and comparing the betrayal of the Medici brothers to celebrated betrayals of Antiquity, that of Troy by Antenor, and of Caesar by Brutus and Cassius. The only other recorded copy of the present edition is an imperfect copy in the Siena Biblioteca Communale. The press of the Convent of Dominican nuns of S. Jacopo di Ripoli is one of the most interesting Florentine presses of this period. Under the direction of the conventual procurator Fra Domenico da Pistoia and their confessor Fra Piero da Pisa, the nuns, already skilled in calligraphy and manuscript illumination, took up printing in 1476, and remained extremely active for the next 8 years, issuing over seventy editions before the death of Fra Domenico and the closing of the press in 1484. The sisters seem to have handled the composition and other press-work, subcontracting the type-cutting and striking of matrices to local professionals, including the printers Johannes Petri, Nicolaus Laurentii, and De Alopa. Most interestingly, the press's day-book survives, showing not only the wide variety of jobs undertaken, but also the extent of small single-sheet pamphlets in their output, many of which, like the present poem, have survived in one or two copies, if at all. H 9842 (?); IGI 9703.
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