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ALESSANDRO PICCOLOMINI (1508-1578)
De la sfera del mondo. Dele stelle fisse. Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Domenico Volpini for Andrea Arrivabene, 1540. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (216 x 160mm). 48 star maps, woodcut diagrams and historiated initials. 18th-century half vellum, flat spine with red morocco label (possibly a remboitage, some soiling on paper sides, label chipped). Provenance: Francesco Maria Piccolomini, Bishop of Montalcino (title inscription, and note on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST STAR ATLAS PUBLISHED IN THE WEST. De la sfera del mondo is a traditional Ptolemaic-Aristotelian geocentric cosmography, but its appendix, De le stelle fisse, 'represents the first printed star atlas, containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer' (Norman). Piccolomini was an early popularizer of science who wrote in the vernacular to extend scientific knowledge beyond the confines of church and university. Later Bishop of Patrae, he belonged to the notable Siennese ecclesiastical family that produced two popes, including the great Renaissance figure Pope Pius II. This copy belonged to Alessandro's relative Francesco Piccolomini, Bishop of Montalcino, near Sienna, who records paying half a scudo for binding the book in Sienna in 1541. Francesco later became Bishop of Pienza, which had been founded by his ancestor Pius II. The museum there still holds an important series of paintings commissioned by Francesco from the Flemish artist Bernard Rantwyck commemorating the various stages of the translation of the head of St Andrew. Riccardi I, 268-69. Cf. Norman 1696 (for fifth edition of 1559).
De la sfera del mondo. Dele stelle fisse. Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Domenico Volpini for Andrea Arrivabene, 1540. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (216 x 160mm). 48 star maps, woodcut diagrams and historiated initials. 18th-century half vellum, flat spine with red morocco label (possibly a remboitage, some soiling on paper sides, label chipped). Provenance: Francesco Maria Piccolomini, Bishop of Montalcino (title inscription, and note on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST STAR ATLAS PUBLISHED IN THE WEST. De la sfera del mondo is a traditional Ptolemaic-Aristotelian geocentric cosmography, but its appendix, De le stelle fisse, 'represents the first printed star atlas, containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer' (Norman). Piccolomini was an early popularizer of science who wrote in the vernacular to extend scientific knowledge beyond the confines of church and university. Later Bishop of Patrae, he belonged to the notable Siennese ecclesiastical family that produced two popes, including the great Renaissance figure Pope Pius II. This copy belonged to Alessandro's relative Francesco Piccolomini, Bishop of Montalcino, near Sienna, who records paying half a scudo for binding the book in Sienna in 1541. Francesco later became Bishop of Pienza, which had been founded by his ancestor Pius II. The museum there still holds an important series of paintings commissioned by Francesco from the Flemish artist Bernard Rantwyck commemorating the various stages of the translation of the head of St Andrew. Riccardi I, 268-69. Cf. Norman 1696 (for fifth edition of 1559).
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