![PETRACRCA, Francesco (1304-74). [Canzonieri:] Le cose volgari. Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1501.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CKS/2011_CKS_08002_0048_000(petracrca_francesco_canzonieri_le_cose_volgari_venice_aldus_manutius_j084917).jpg?w=1)
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PETRACRCA, Francesco (1304-74). [Canzonieri:] Le cose volgari. Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1501.
8° (147 x 86mm). Italic type, initial spaces with guide-letter, with the final quire containing Aldus's address to the reader and errata, and with blank leaves z4 and A8. (Occasional small spot or light stain, light pentrials in a few margins, tiny wormhole in last quire.) 19th-century green morocco tooled in gilt and blind in a Renaissance style, red morocco pastedowns tooled in gilt, edges gilt and gauffered, brown morocco pull-off case. Provenance: A.F.P (?Alfred Piat; initials tooled on front pastedown, motto 'in omnibus respice finem' tooled on back pastedown) -- Francis Kettaneh (1897-1976; booklabel; sale Paris, 20 May 1980) -- Leonard Klein (booklabel).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, and the first Italian -- indeed the first vernacular -- text printed in italic type. Cut by Francesco Griffo, this first Aldine italic type had appeared only four months earlier in the Aldine Virgil, following the appearance of a few words in the letters of St. Catherine the previous year. Griffo took as his models the humanist hands of scribes such as Pomponio Leto and Bartolommeo Sanvito. The Petrarch is an early component in the Aldine programme providing texts in small formats suited to scholars and a wider reading public. Aldus states in his address that the text is based on Petrarch's own autograph manuscript obtained from Bembo. A handsome copy. Renouard 28:5; Ahmanson-Murphy 43; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 371.
8° (147 x 86mm). Italic type, initial spaces with guide-letter, with the final quire containing Aldus's address to the reader and errata, and with blank leaves z4 and A8. (Occasional small spot or light stain, light pentrials in a few margins, tiny wormhole in last quire.) 19th-century green morocco tooled in gilt and blind in a Renaissance style, red morocco pastedowns tooled in gilt, edges gilt and gauffered, brown morocco pull-off case. Provenance: A.F.P (?Alfred Piat; initials tooled on front pastedown, motto 'in omnibus respice finem' tooled on back pastedown) -- Francis Kettaneh (1897-1976; booklabel; sale Paris, 20 May 1980) -- Leonard Klein (booklabel).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, and the first Italian -- indeed the first vernacular -- text printed in italic type. Cut by Francesco Griffo, this first Aldine italic type had appeared only four months earlier in the Aldine Virgil, following the appearance of a few words in the letters of St. Catherine the previous year. Griffo took as his models the humanist hands of scribes such as Pomponio Leto and Bartolommeo Sanvito. The Petrarch is an early component in the Aldine programme providing texts in small formats suited to scholars and a wider reading public. Aldus states in his address that the text is based on Petrarch's own autograph manuscript obtained from Bembo. A handsome copy. Renouard 28:5; Ahmanson-Murphy 43; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 371.
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