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BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime. -Le Stanze. Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and brothers, 1530.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (208 x 140 mm). Italic type. First blank pasted onto free end-paper (?), separate collations for each part. Modern tan morocco (small scuffmark to front cover). g.e. Provenance: early MS foliation; Francesco Radaeli, Bredford Libri Rari, Lugano.
A RARE FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD CONDITION of Bembo's important vernacular poetry. It is much rarer than his De Aetna (1495), Gli Asolani (1505) or Prose (1525), and it contains the dedication to Ottaviano Fregoso, omitted in the Rome edition of 1548. Gamba 141; Parenti p.43.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (208 x 140 mm). Italic type. First blank pasted onto free end-paper (?), separate collations for each part. Modern tan morocco (small scuffmark to front cover). g.e. Provenance: early MS foliation; Francesco Radaeli, Bredford Libri Rari, Lugano.
A RARE FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD CONDITION of Bembo's important vernacular poetry. It is much rarer than his De Aetna (1495), Gli Asolani (1505) or Prose (1525), and it contains the dedication to Ottaviano Fregoso, omitted in the Rome edition of 1548. Gamba 141; Parenti p.43.