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CARA, Petrus (ca. 1440-1501 or 1502). Aureae orationes. Turin: Petrus Paulus Porrus (for) Joannes Bremius, 1 November 1520.
4° (199 x 132 mm). Collation: π6 A-O8 P6. 124 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes. Title and first leaf of dedication (π1r and π2r) within repeated four-part metalcut criblé and woodcut (lower border only) borders, 11-line metalcut floriated initial on A1r, 5- and 3-line woodcut initials. (Gutter and fore-margins of first 2 leaves repaired, just catching metalcut borders, first leaf with paper restoration slightly affecting a few letters, small repaired hole to last leaf not affecting text.) Contemporary blind stamped French(?) calf over pasteboard, covers with outer panel formed of repeated star of David within circle tools, inner panel of repeated fleur-de-lys tool, enclosing a vertical row of four repeated diamond-shaped floral tools, spine in four plain compartments (restoration to corners and head and tail of spine, slightly stained, later endpapers.)
Provenance: Galeani Naplone(?) di Cocconato, presentation inscription on title dated 1790, from Monsignor Giaciuto della Torre.
FIRST EDITION. This collection of orations and letters by Pietro Cara was dedicated by his son Scipio to Charles III (here called the Second), Duke of Savoy. In his prefatory letter to the duke, Scipio stresses the faithfulness and skill with which Pietro had served Charles's predecessors as official orator to the Duchy of Savoy. The present collection of Cara's works opens with an address consoling Duke Charles I for the death of his brother and includes speeches composed for delivery to the Venetian Senate, Pope Alexander VI, King Charles VIII of France, and the Emperor Maximilian I. Cara's oratorical skill was greatly admired by contemporaries such as as Ermolao Barbaro and Giovanni Simoneta, whose letters to him are included here. Some of Cara's speeches were printed in the fifteenth century, soon after they were composed (GW 6034-7).
Adams C-617; BM/STC Italian p. 147.
4° (199 x 132 mm). Collation: π6 A-O8 P6. 124 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes. Title and first leaf of dedication (π1r and π2r) within repeated four-part metalcut criblé and woodcut (lower border only) borders, 11-line metalcut floriated initial on A1r, 5- and 3-line woodcut initials. (Gutter and fore-margins of first 2 leaves repaired, just catching metalcut borders, first leaf with paper restoration slightly affecting a few letters, small repaired hole to last leaf not affecting text.) Contemporary blind stamped French(?) calf over pasteboard, covers with outer panel formed of repeated star of David within circle tools, inner panel of repeated fleur-de-lys tool, enclosing a vertical row of four repeated diamond-shaped floral tools, spine in four plain compartments (restoration to corners and head and tail of spine, slightly stained, later endpapers.)
Provenance: Galeani Naplone(?) di Cocconato, presentation inscription on title dated 1790, from Monsignor Giaciuto della Torre.
FIRST EDITION. This collection of orations and letters by Pietro Cara was dedicated by his son Scipio to Charles III (here called the Second), Duke of Savoy. In his prefatory letter to the duke, Scipio stresses the faithfulness and skill with which Pietro had served Charles's predecessors as official orator to the Duchy of Savoy. The present collection of Cara's works opens with an address consoling Duke Charles I for the death of his brother and includes speeches composed for delivery to the Venetian Senate, Pope Alexander VI, King Charles VIII of France, and the Emperor Maximilian I. Cara's oratorical skill was greatly admired by contemporaries such as as Ermolao Barbaro and Giovanni Simoneta, whose letters to him are included here. Some of Cara's speeches were printed in the fifteenth century, soon after they were composed (GW 6034-7).
Adams C-617; BM/STC Italian p. 147.