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BIONDO, Michelangelo. Della nobilissima pittura, et della sua arte, del modo, & della dottrina, di conseguirla, ageuolment et presto. Venice: [Bartolommeo l'Imperadore], 1549.
8°. (Lacks the final blank, browning and waterstaining.) Early 19th-century calf-backed sprinkled boards, gilt ornament in panels of flat spine. Provenance: Girolamo Caratti of Udine (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of a rare little book by a doctor who also wrote books on dogs and hunting, stars and physiognomy. It is riddled with mistakes including the attribution of the Cenacolo of Leonardo to Mantegna and inspired Cicognara to write of it "Questo è uno dei casi in cui è utile che i più rari libri siano appunto i più cattivi". The last blank page is filled with two sonnets by Petrarch on Simone da Siena written in a very fine mid sixteenth-century calligraphic hand with the first line in gold. There are also a few marginalia in the same hand. Cicognara 82; Censimento B2266.
8°. (Lacks the final blank, browning and waterstaining.) Early 19th-century calf-backed sprinkled boards, gilt ornament in panels of flat spine. Provenance: Girolamo Caratti of Udine (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of a rare little book by a doctor who also wrote books on dogs and hunting, stars and physiognomy. It is riddled with mistakes including the attribution of the Cenacolo of Leonardo to Mantegna and inspired Cicognara to write of it "Questo è uno dei casi in cui è utile che i più rari libri siano appunto i più cattivi". The last blank page is filled with two sonnets by Petrarch on Simone da Siena written in a very fine mid sixteenth-century calligraphic hand with the first line in gold. There are also a few marginalia in the same hand. Cicognara 82; Censimento B2266.