SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTTI, SPERONE. 1500-1588.
Dialoghi. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550.
Dialoghi. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550.
8vo (158 x 101 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf. 19th century vellum, spine with four raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. Some soiling to covers, lettering piece chipped, light foxing.
Provenance: Leonardo Vitetti [Italian diplomat, 1895-1973] (bookplate).
Influential Renaissance humanist Speroni was forced to edit his dialogues, first published in 1542, under pressure from the Inquisition. The result was this edition, which the title page tells us was "revisited and corrected with great diligence." Adams S-1569; Ahmanson-Murphy 399; EDIT 16 CNCE 26984; Renouard 149:13
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Dialoghi. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550.
Dialoghi. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550.
8vo (158 x 101 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf. 19th century vellum, spine with four raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. Some soiling to covers, lettering piece chipped, light foxing.
Provenance: Leonardo Vitetti [Italian diplomat, 1895-1973] (bookplate).
Influential Renaissance humanist Speroni was forced to edit his dialogues, first published in 1542, under pressure from the Inquisition. The result was this edition, which the title page tells us was "revisited and corrected with great diligence." Adams S-1569; Ahmanson-Murphy 399; EDIT 16 CNCE 26984; Renouard 149:13
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