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CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529). Il libro del Cortegiano. Venice: heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano d'Asola, April 1528.
2° (314 x 219mm). 122 leaves. 5- and 6-line initial spaces with guide letters. Aldine anchor device on title and final verso. (Repaired tear in a8, light marginal soiling and spotting, occasional very faint dampstain in the fore-margin.) Contemporary Italian goatskin, probably Sienese [cf. Hobson], sides panelled with several blind frames and one gilt double frame extended to form a small square at the corners, spine with three raised bands, compartments cross-hatched in blind, black edges (expertly restored, endpapers browned and with some wear, light worming to the pastedowns). Provenance: light underlining in brown ink, mainly in the last gathering; cancelled shelf marks on the front endpapers – Walter Ashburner, Florence (1864-1936, co-founder of the British Institute, Florence; stamp in margin of title and colophon) – C.E. Rappaport, Rome (bookseller’s ticket).
FIRST EDITION, IN ITS ORIGINAL ITALIAN BINDING FROM THE SIENESE WORKSHOP OF ALLESSANDRO GUGLIELMI (1501-62), OF CASTIGLIONE'S FAMOUS GUIDE TO COURTLY MANNERS: AN ICON OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
Composed as a fictional dialogue between important members of early 16th-century Italian society, Il Cortegiano features figures such as Pietro Bembo, Ludovico da Canossa, Bernardo da Bibbiena and others discussing the virtues of the good courtier over the course of four evenings. The discourse focuses on the central concepts of grazia, misura, ingenio and arte.
The work had a significant influence on Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare and many others, all of whom contributed to shape the figure of the gentilhomme or gentleman.
Castiglione was born in Mantua in 1478. As both poet and diplomat, he served the dukes of Urbino, among others, before serving as papal representative to the court of Emperor Charles V. He died at Toledo in 1529. Raphael painted him in a celebrated portrait of 1515, depicting Castiglione precisely as the ideal courtier described in Il Cortegiano.
A magnificent copy in a contemporary Sienese binding attributed by Anthony Hobson to Allessandro Guglielmi.
Adams C-924; Hobson, ‘A Central Italian bookseller and bookbinder’, in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2010, pp. 215-220; PMM 59; Renouard Alde, p.102.3.
2° (314 x 219mm). 122 leaves. 5- and 6-line initial spaces with guide letters. Aldine anchor device on title and final verso. (Repaired tear in a8, light marginal soiling and spotting, occasional very faint dampstain in the fore-margin.) Contemporary Italian goatskin, probably Sienese [cf. Hobson], sides panelled with several blind frames and one gilt double frame extended to form a small square at the corners, spine with three raised bands, compartments cross-hatched in blind, black edges (expertly restored, endpapers browned and with some wear, light worming to the pastedowns). Provenance: light underlining in brown ink, mainly in the last gathering; cancelled shelf marks on the front endpapers – Walter Ashburner, Florence (1864-1936, co-founder of the British Institute, Florence; stamp in margin of title and colophon) – C.E. Rappaport, Rome (bookseller’s ticket).
FIRST EDITION, IN ITS ORIGINAL ITALIAN BINDING FROM THE SIENESE WORKSHOP OF ALLESSANDRO GUGLIELMI (1501-62), OF CASTIGLIONE'S FAMOUS GUIDE TO COURTLY MANNERS: AN ICON OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
Composed as a fictional dialogue between important members of early 16th-century Italian society, Il Cortegiano features figures such as Pietro Bembo, Ludovico da Canossa, Bernardo da Bibbiena and others discussing the virtues of the good courtier over the course of four evenings. The discourse focuses on the central concepts of grazia, misura, ingenio and arte.
The work had a significant influence on Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare and many others, all of whom contributed to shape the figure of the gentilhomme or gentleman.
Castiglione was born in Mantua in 1478. As both poet and diplomat, he served the dukes of Urbino, among others, before serving as papal representative to the court of Emperor Charles V. He died at Toledo in 1529. Raphael painted him in a celebrated portrait of 1515, depicting Castiglione precisely as the ideal courtier described in Il Cortegiano.
A magnificent copy in a contemporary Sienese binding attributed by Anthony Hobson to Allessandro Guglielmi.
Adams C-924; Hobson, ‘A Central Italian bookseller and bookbinder’, in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2010, pp. 215-220; PMM 59; Renouard Alde, p.102.3.
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