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RINGHIERI, Innocenzio (fl.1550). Cento giuochi liberali, et d’ingegno. Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, August 1551.
Small 4° (208 x 155mm). Large woodcut device on title, smaller one at end, historiated initials, with the final blank. (Title lightly soiled, light marginal waterstaining, stronger in a few leaves and affecting text, small wormhole in margin of title.) Old vellum (binding slightly shrunk and soiled, inner gutter of front endpaper strengthened.) Provenance: Joannis Ursucci (ownership inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Catherine de' Medici and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto. Adams R-564; Brunet IV, 1268; van der Linde II, 331; van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 3688; Riccardi I(ii) 377.
Small 4° (208 x 155mm). Large woodcut device on title, smaller one at end, historiated initials, with the final blank. (Title lightly soiled, light marginal waterstaining, stronger in a few leaves and affecting text, small wormhole in margin of title.) Old vellum (binding slightly shrunk and soiled, inner gutter of front endpaper strengthened.) Provenance: Joannis Ursucci (ownership inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Catherine de' Medici and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto. Adams R-564; Brunet IV, 1268; van der Linde II, 331; van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 3688; Riccardi I(ii) 377.
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