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PULCI, Luigi (1432-84). La giostra di Lorenzo de' Medici. [Florence: Antonio Tubini, Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus and Andrea Ghirlandi, ca. 1500].
Chancery 4° (220 x 134 mm). Collation: a8 b6 c4 (a1r title, woodcut, text). 18 leaves. 40 lines (c4v). Shoulder notes (summaries). Type 1:86R, Lombard capital S. Woodcut on a1r of two knights on horseback and a standard bearer greeting or confronting a third mounted knight (Kristeller 345), within white-on-black ornamental border. (Repair to lower inner blank margin of first leaf, some light foxing and soiling.) Modern limp vellum.
Second edition, the first illustrated, of Pulci's verse celebration of a spectacular jousting tournament held by Lorenzo de' Medici in 1469. Pulci was one of the most gifted of a group of Florentine humanist poets, led by Angelo Poliziano, who championed the use of the vernacular and the freedom to borrow metrical forms and genres from Tuscan popular verse. In this they benefited from the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, himself a poet of distinction, who, like his father Piero and grandfather Cosimo de' Medici, vigorously promoted the Tuscan vernacular and lyric poetry in particular. Pulci, one of Lorenzo's closest companions, is best known for his semi-comical chivalric epic Morgante maggiore, a precursor of the narrative poems of Tasso and Ariosto. This was written at the behest of his benefactress, Lorenzo's mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni, who had requested of him an epic in the popular style of the cantari, 13th-century Tuscan narrative verse in ottava rima, that would shed new dignity on Charlemagne, the persistent object of ridicule in traditional minstrel verse.
The printers Tubini, Laurentius de Alopa and Andrea Ghirlandi were associated for a brief period in 1499-1500, when they printed in partnership several sermons of Savonarola and a few works of poetry. The latter included Poliziano's La giostra di Giuliano de' Medici [ca. 1500], celebrating, perhaps in friendly rivalry with Pulci's poem, a tournament held in 1475 by Lorenzo's younger brother Giuliano. The woodcut of knights reappeared in the important and very rare illustrated edition of Morgante maggiore printed by Tubini for Piero Pacini during the same year. RARE.
H *13583; BMC XII, 49 (IA. 28090); IGI 8826; Kristeller 345a; Sander 6024; Goff P-1123 (2 copies only).
Chancery 4° (220 x 134 mm). Collation: a8 b6 c4 (a1r title, woodcut, text). 18 leaves. 40 lines (c4v). Shoulder notes (summaries). Type 1:86R, Lombard capital S. Woodcut on a1r of two knights on horseback and a standard bearer greeting or confronting a third mounted knight (Kristeller 345), within white-on-black ornamental border. (Repair to lower inner blank margin of first leaf, some light foxing and soiling.) Modern limp vellum.
Second edition, the first illustrated, of Pulci's verse celebration of a spectacular jousting tournament held by Lorenzo de' Medici in 1469. Pulci was one of the most gifted of a group of Florentine humanist poets, led by Angelo Poliziano, who championed the use of the vernacular and the freedom to borrow metrical forms and genres from Tuscan popular verse. In this they benefited from the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, himself a poet of distinction, who, like his father Piero and grandfather Cosimo de' Medici, vigorously promoted the Tuscan vernacular and lyric poetry in particular. Pulci, one of Lorenzo's closest companions, is best known for his semi-comical chivalric epic Morgante maggiore, a precursor of the narrative poems of Tasso and Ariosto. This was written at the behest of his benefactress, Lorenzo's mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni, who had requested of him an epic in the popular style of the cantari, 13th-century Tuscan narrative verse in ottava rima, that would shed new dignity on Charlemagne, the persistent object of ridicule in traditional minstrel verse.
The printers Tubini, Laurentius de Alopa and Andrea Ghirlandi were associated for a brief period in 1499-1500, when they printed in partnership several sermons of Savonarola and a few works of poetry. The latter included Poliziano's La giostra di Giuliano de' Medici [ca. 1500], celebrating, perhaps in friendly rivalry with Pulci's poem, a tournament held in 1475 by Lorenzo's younger brother Giuliano. The woodcut of knights reappeared in the important and very rare illustrated edition of Morgante maggiore printed by Tubini for Piero Pacini during the same year. RARE.
H *13583; BMC XII, 49 (IA. 28090); IGI 8826; Kristeller 345a; Sander 6024; Goff P-1123 (2 copies only).