![[DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321)]. Sonetti e' Canzoni di diversi antichi autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, July 1527. Small 8° (157 x 93mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and fianl verso. (Occasional light spotting, mainly marginal, paper repair in fore-margin of f. 77, paper defect at lower margin of f. 127.) Handsome 18th-century Italian vellum, spine titled in manuscript in ink (boards slightly soiled, signs of very slight worm damage to lower board). Provenance: Ridolpho Argenti (ownership signature on title) -- marginal notes on ff 114v and 115r.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08952_0047_000(dante_alighieri_sonetti_e_canzoni_di_diversi_antichi_autori_toscani_in065706).jpg?w=1)
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[DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321)]. Sonetti e' Canzoni di diversi antichi autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, July 1527. Small 8° (157 x 93mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and fianl verso. (Occasional light spotting, mainly marginal, paper repair in fore-margin of f. 77, paper defect at lower margin of f. 127.) Handsome 18th-century Italian vellum, spine titled in manuscript in ink (boards slightly soiled, signs of very slight worm damage to lower board). Provenance: Ridolpho Argenti (ownership signature on title) -- marginal notes on ff 114v and 115r.
EXTREMELY RARE. Second and most comprehensive edition of the most complete collection of Italian poets assembled in the 14th century, including the first edition of Dante's Canzoniere, edited by eminent philologists and humanists, including Antonio Albert, Bernardo Segni and Pietro Vettori. Only one copy has appeared at auction in the last 30 years (September 1990, not recorded by ABPC). In addition the book contains work of poets who had a great influence on Dante such as Cino da Pistoia, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante da Majano, for some of whom this is the only extant source for their work. This copy contains on the verso of f. 114 and the recto of f. 115 a contemporary manuscript gloss on a poem by the Emperor Frederick II. Giunti, 207; Brunet V, 438 ('Recueil recherché et difficile à trouver'); Adams T-1213.
EXTREMELY RARE. Second and most comprehensive edition of the most complete collection of Italian poets assembled in the 14th century, including the first edition of Dante's Canzoniere, edited by eminent philologists and humanists, including Antonio Albert, Bernardo Segni and Pietro Vettori. Only one copy has appeared at auction in the last 30 years (September 1990, not recorded by ABPC). In addition the book contains work of poets who had a great influence on Dante such as Cino da Pistoia, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante da Majano, for some of whom this is the only extant source for their work. This copy contains on the verso of f. 114 and the recto of f. 115 a contemporary manuscript gloss on a poem by the Emperor Frederick II. Giunti, 207; Brunet V, 438 ('Recueil recherché et difficile à trouver'); Adams T-1213.
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