Live auction - Lot 682

[Giunta Press - Poetry]

MARTELLI, Lodovico

Rime volgari.

Florence, B. di Giunto, 1548

€ 300 / 400

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Lot description

8vo: [4]-160-[24] ff. (browning and marg. tears repaired on ff. [2-3], light (marg.) dampstaining, large on last quire, soiling, marg. hole in f. 83, f. 113 browned, marg. ink soiling on ff. 151-152, scribblings on verso of last f.).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine, blue edges (contemp. ms. names and notes on front flyleaf).

Extremely rare second edition (1st 1533) of the poetry of Martelli (1500-1527-1528), and first edition with the translation of the fourth book of Virgil. In 1548, an edition of the "Opere" of Martelli was published, also by B. Giunta, containing the same exact pages and text as our copy but with a different title, a praise of Martelli probably by Benedetto Varchi on verso of title and with an errata at colophon. Printed in italics; fleuron on title.
Ref. EDIT16 82006. - Cp. Pettas 287 (Opere, 1548), STC Italy 419 (1533 ed.), Gamba 640 and 641 (1533 ed. and Opere). - Not in Adams.

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Lot 682

Rime volgari.

MARTELLI, Lodovico

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