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CONTINENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Lot 39

BEMBO (PIETRO)
Gli Asolani, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, [Venice, House of Aldus, 1505]

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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BEMBO (PIETRO)

Gli Asolani, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, capital spaces with guide-letters, woodcut printer's device to verso of m8, without final blank (n2), early twentieth century maroon morocco gilt, covers stamped in period-style decoration with central cartouches enclosing title/author on upper cover, and imprint details on lower, g.e., spine in 8 compartments within raised bands (spine faded, upper joint weakened) [Adams B578; Ahmanson Murphy 88; Renouard 48/1], 8vo, [Venice, House of Aldus, 1505]

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, dated August 1504. This was removed from the subsequent issue, perhaps as suggested by Renouard because Lucrezia's husband, Alfonso d'Este, who became duke of Ferrara in January 1505, had fallen out of favour with the Pope so Bembo felt that the dedicatin would no longer be advisable. Gli Aolani is "to us... a work of great interest: a fascinating glimpse of high society, an important literary experiment, a popularisation of Ficino's theories of love, and an edition which commands attention because of the personalities concerned, and because of its connection with political developments in Rome and Ferrara" (M. Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, 1979).

Provenance: Camillo Raineri Biscia (1846-1920), bibliophile from Bologna, with "Biblioteca Raineri-Biscia" stamp on the title-page.

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