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Gli Asolani di M. Pietro Bembo, di nuovo ristampati e con ogni diligenza reuisti corrette. Con gli argomenti a ciascun libro, & con le postille in margine, che dichiarano I vocaboli piu difficili. Fatte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Aretino.

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547) MDLXXXVI (1586). 12mo (133 x 74mm). 271pp. Signatures: +(12), A-L(12), M(4). Title and rear register with woodcut engraved printer’s device of the Goddess of Abundance in ovalcartouche frame. Text in Italian in italic with printed marginalia. Modern vellum and morocco lettering label titled in gilt "BEMBO GLI ASOLANI," endpapers renewed; (title worn and remargined on the Gli Asolani, edges lightly browned or some dampstaining throughout,otherwise good compact volume and complete). This is the edition issued by Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585), "newly revised and corrected," of Pietro Bembo’s famous love dialogue Gli Asolani ("The People of Asolo"). Tommaso Porcacchi (of Castiglione) was a Tuscan author, bibliophile, and cartographer. His edition of Bembo’s work was first published in Venice with Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari in 1571; then again in 1575. Another Porcacchi edition of Gli Asolani was printed with the brothers Fabio and Agostin Zoppini in 1584. By 1586, Poracchi had commissioned Pietro Marinelli to continue to print his edits to the Gli Asolani. Entirely, this work encapsulates a theme the golden age of Venetian letters and printing – one for revision, collaboration, and active exchange. Pietro Bembo was a native Venetian, born into old nobility in 1470. In the decades directly after Bembo’s life, there was an extreme interest in planning new editions for his works among them Gli Asolani. The Venetian-based Porcacchi circulated his revisions to some of the key sixteenth century printers operating in the magnificent City of Bridges. The Porcacchi editions are classic, not only for examining the editorial attention given to a popular vernacular text in Renaissance Italy, but for showing the growth of an important printing industry and a new method for working.
  • $375
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Delle rime di M. Pietro Bembo, di nuouo ristampate & con ogni diligenza corrette

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547) MDLXXXVI (1586). 12mo (133 x 74mm). 79pp. [ie. 69]. Signatures: A-F(12) (lacking final blank). Title and rear register with woodcut engraved printer’s device of the Goddess of Abundance in oval cartouche frame. Text in Italian in italic with printed marginalia. Modern vellum and morocco lettering label titled in gilt "BEMBO RIME," endpapers renewed; (edges lightly browned or some dampstaining throughout, otherwise good compact volume and complete). Although not named on the title, this is the "newly corrected" edition by Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585) of Pietro Bembo’s Delle Rime. Tommaso Porcacchi (of Castiglione) was a Tuscan author, bibliophile, and cartographer. Porcacchi’s edition of Bembo’s work was first published in Venice with Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari in 1564. By 1586, Porcacchi had commissioned Pietro Marinelli to continue to print his edits to the Della Rime; Porcacchi was considered a well-known authority on literary matters. Earlier editions of Delle Rime - by de’Ferrari or those predating the copyedited versions of Porcacchi - remain more common. Entirely, this work encapsulates a theme the golden age of Venetian letters and printing - one for revision, collaboration, and active exchange. Pietro Bembo was a native Venetian, born into old nobility in 1470. In the decades directly after Bembo’s life, there was an extreme interest in planning new editions for his works among them Delle Rime. The Venetian-based Porcacchi circulated his revisions to some of the key sixteenth-century printers operating in the magnificent City of Bridges. The Porcacchi editions are classic, not only for examining the editorial attention given to a popular vernacular text in Renaissance Italy, but for showing the growth of an important printing industry and a new method for working.
  • $500