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ASSARACCUS, Andreas. Historie novae ac veteres ab noviss. Francesci Sfortiae temporibus ad Franciscum regem Francorum ducemque Mediolani. Milan: Gottardo da Ponte, 24 December 1516.
2° (276 x 191 mm). Collation: A-G8 H6 I-M8 N10 O8. 111 leaves (of 112, without the first blank). Roman type, shoulder notes. Title within four-part black-ground woodcut border (the block somewhat worn), the printer's small round swan device in center of lower block, full-page allegorical woodcut on A3r showing Fides on a dais flanked by Juno and Pallas, François I of France and Giovanni Giacomo Trivulzio gesturing toward them in the foreground, within an architectural border with the French royal arms in the pediment, printer's woodcut orb and cross device on O8v, woodcut black-ground floriated and a few black-on-white historiated initials (of which an initial B on F4v printed sideways). (Title-border shaved at fore-edge, marginal foxing to quire B, scattered light spotting, blank upper fore-corners of M7-O8 repaired, filled wormhole in quires N-O affecting a few letters, a few minuscule marginal tears or wormholes.) 19th-century brown morocco, covers tooled in blind with inlaid gold-tooled black morocco panel, at center of upper cover the effigy of Jacopo Trivulzio in embossed black morocco (rubbed), lower cover with a Latin inscription stamped on central inlaid cartouche, spine similarly inlaid and gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gauffred and gilt, by Binda of Milan.
FIRST EDITION of Assaracco's verse celebration of the exploits of the powerful Milanese condottiere Giovanni Giacomo Trivulzio (1441-1518), who fought on the side of the French under Louis XII in the battle for Milan in 1499, overthrowing his former master Lodovico Sforza. The poem, cast in the form of a dialogue in distichs between Juno and Pallas Athena, is dedicated to François I, who had recently reconquered the Milanese after the battle of Marignano. An exhaustive alphabetical index of names and concepts figuring in the poem occupies fols. O1v-O8v. The poem, a straightforward historical account, includes references to Jean Grolier (L2r) and to Aldus Manutius (L2v).
Brunet I, 527; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 32; Sander 646.
2° (276 x 191 mm). Collation: A-G8 H6 I-M8 N10 O8. 111 leaves (of 112, without the first blank). Roman type, shoulder notes. Title within four-part black-ground woodcut border (the block somewhat worn), the printer's small round swan device in center of lower block, full-page allegorical woodcut on A3r showing Fides on a dais flanked by Juno and Pallas, François I of France and Giovanni Giacomo Trivulzio gesturing toward them in the foreground, within an architectural border with the French royal arms in the pediment, printer's woodcut orb and cross device on O8v, woodcut black-ground floriated and a few black-on-white historiated initials (of which an initial B on F4v printed sideways). (Title-border shaved at fore-edge, marginal foxing to quire B, scattered light spotting, blank upper fore-corners of M7-O8 repaired, filled wormhole in quires N-O affecting a few letters, a few minuscule marginal tears or wormholes.) 19th-century brown morocco, covers tooled in blind with inlaid gold-tooled black morocco panel, at center of upper cover the effigy of Jacopo Trivulzio in embossed black morocco (rubbed), lower cover with a Latin inscription stamped on central inlaid cartouche, spine similarly inlaid and gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gauffred and gilt, by Binda of Milan.
FIRST EDITION of Assaracco's verse celebration of the exploits of the powerful Milanese condottiere Giovanni Giacomo Trivulzio (1441-1518), who fought on the side of the French under Louis XII in the battle for Milan in 1499, overthrowing his former master Lodovico Sforza. The poem, cast in the form of a dialogue in distichs between Juno and Pallas Athena, is dedicated to François I, who had recently reconquered the Milanese after the battle of Marignano. An exhaustive alphabetical index of names and concepts figuring in the poem occupies fols. O1v-O8v. The poem, a straightforward historical account, includes references to Jean Grolier (L2r) and to Aldus Manutius (L2v).
Brunet I, 527; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 32; Sander 646.