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Lauretum. [Florence: ca.1513-1520].
Small 4° (196 x 133mm). Collation: A-F4. Large woodcut title of a young man, crowned and playing the violin, standing in front of a tree in which a bird is standing, with four young women seated on either side and one standing behind the tree, with a fine white-on-black woodcut leafy border incorporating the Medici arms at the sides and the title at the top. Early 19th-century Italian red roan-backed boards, gilt spine (small wormhole in lower joint).
Apparently the only edition of this extremely rare collection of Latin poems in honour of Lorenzo de Medici by some largely unknown poets; one is by Luigi Alamanni. Sander likens the fine woodcut to his plate nos.619-621, but any stylistic similarity is faint. The terminus ante quem of 1513 is deduced by the fact that two poems are dedicated to Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Sander (supplement) 281 (variant collation).
Small 4° (196 x 133mm). Collation: A-F4. Large woodcut title of a young man, crowned and playing the violin, standing in front of a tree in which a bird is standing, with four young women seated on either side and one standing behind the tree, with a fine white-on-black woodcut leafy border incorporating the Medici arms at the sides and the title at the top. Early 19th-century Italian red roan-backed boards, gilt spine (small wormhole in lower joint).
Apparently the only edition of this extremely rare collection of Latin poems in honour of Lorenzo de Medici by some largely unknown poets; one is by Luigi Alamanni. Sander likens the fine woodcut to his plate nos.619-621, but any stylistic similarity is faint. The terminus ante quem of 1513 is deduced by the fact that two poems are dedicated to Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Sander (supplement) 281 (variant collation).