BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime. With Le Stanze. Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530.

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BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime. With Le Stanze. Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530.

2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (207 x 150mm.). Collation: A-D8 E10 (A1-2r blank, A2v title, Rime, E10r errata, E10v blank); A-C4 (A1 blank, A2 dedication to Ottaviano Fregoso, Le Stanze, C3r colophon, C3v-4 blank). Italic type. (Two small stains at the beginning.) Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. Provenance: contemporary manuscript of a sonnet by Bembo, first published in 1548 as Se già ne l'età mia più verde e calda, but here in a slightly different reading.

FIRST EDITION of Bembo's important vernacular poetry. It is MUCH RARER than his De Aetna (1495), Gli Asolani (1505) or Prose (1525). VERY FINE COPY. Gamba 141 note; Parenti p.72.