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PIUS II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope, 1405-1464). Proemio di Ser Alexandro Braccio...sopra la traductione duna historia di due ama[n]ti composta dalla felice memoria di papa Pio seco[n]do.. Milan: Leonardo Vegio, 18 December 1510.
4° (198 x 133mm). Large woodcut on title of a girl and a young man in a landscape, the young man being shot at by a blindfolded Cupid. (Light spotting.) 19th-century calf gilt. Provenance: Edward Cheney (bookplate); Charles Fairfax Murray (signature and date of acquisition, Nov. 1886, no.1524 in his catalogue).
A rare edition of one of the great humanist pope's best-known works translated by Alessandro Bracci. The novel relates the love affair between Gaspar Schlick (Euryalus), the intimate friend and chancellor of the emperor Frederick III, and a lady of Siena (Lucretia), which occurred during the sojourn of the emperor in that town in 1432. Gamba states that Bracci's translation is so different from the Latin original as to constitute almost a new work. The woodcut on the title-page was first used in the edition printed by Pellizono at Milan in 1500 and again, in reverse form, in Pietro Martire de Mantegatii's 1506 edition of the Historia de Apollonio de Tiro (for other uses see Mortimer). Sander 5670; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 385.
4° (198 x 133mm). Large woodcut on title of a girl and a young man in a landscape, the young man being shot at by a blindfolded Cupid. (Light spotting.) 19th-century calf gilt. Provenance: Edward Cheney (bookplate); Charles Fairfax Murray (signature and date of acquisition, Nov. 1886, no.1524 in his catalogue).
A rare edition of one of the great humanist pope's best-known works translated by Alessandro Bracci. The novel relates the love affair between Gaspar Schlick (Euryalus), the intimate friend and chancellor of the emperor Frederick III, and a lady of Siena (Lucretia), which occurred during the sojourn of the emperor in that town in 1432. Gamba states that Bracci's translation is so different from the Latin original as to constitute almost a new work. The woodcut on the title-page was first used in the edition printed by Pellizono at Milan in 1500 and again, in reverse form, in Pietro Martire de Mantegatii's 1506 edition of the Historia de Apollonio de Tiro (for other uses see Mortimer). Sander 5670; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 385.