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[ARRIGHI, Lodovico degli (called Vicentino, 1475-1527), printer]. TRISSINO, Giovanni Giorgio (1478-1550). Oratione del Trissino Al Serenissino [M. Andrea Griti] Principe di Venetia. Rome: Lodovico degl'Arrighi, October 1524.
4o (199 x 143 mm). Collation: A4 B6. 10 leaves. Italic type with some Greek characters representing certain Italian vocables. Modern patterned boards. Provenance: acquired from Chiswick's bookshop, 1974.
FIRST EDITION of one of Trissino's scarce pamphlets printed by Arrighi in 1524-25. Trissino worked with Arrighi to develop alternate typographic characters, which appear in the famous font in which this book is printed. These elusive books are important in the history of typography as the earliest printed in chancery italic designed by Arrighi, copied by Blado and others, forming a school of italic types quite distinct from the tradition that begins with the Aldine Virgil in 1501. "This second school of chancery types is intimately connected with the city of Rome, with the Vatican chancery, and particularly with the work of the scribe Lodovico degli Arrighi of Vincenza, whose typography has been passed over in silence, although he not only produced some of the most beautiful books printed in this, or indeed any period, but also a source of inspiration to better-known printers" (A.F. Johnson and Stanley Morison, The Fleuron, no. 3, p.25).
Trissino's oration is addressed to the doge Andrea Gritti on the occasion of his election. It was frequently reprinted together with his Sofonisba and was often anthologized. All of Trissino's pamphlets printed by Arrighi are VERY SCARCE, with none appearing of this title in American Book Prices Current in at least the last fifty years. Gamba 1708.
4o (199 x 143 mm). Collation: A4 B6. 10 leaves. Italic type with some Greek characters representing certain Italian vocables. Modern patterned boards. Provenance: acquired from Chiswick's bookshop, 1974.
FIRST EDITION of one of Trissino's scarce pamphlets printed by Arrighi in 1524-25. Trissino worked with Arrighi to develop alternate typographic characters, which appear in the famous font in which this book is printed. These elusive books are important in the history of typography as the earliest printed in chancery italic designed by Arrighi, copied by Blado and others, forming a school of italic types quite distinct from the tradition that begins with the Aldine Virgil in 1501. "This second school of chancery types is intimately connected with the city of Rome, with the Vatican chancery, and particularly with the work of the scribe Lodovico degli Arrighi of Vincenza, whose typography has been passed over in silence, although he not only produced some of the most beautiful books printed in this, or indeed any period, but also a source of inspiration to better-known printers" (A.F. Johnson and Stanley Morison, The Fleuron, no. 3, p.25).
Trissino's oration is addressed to the doge Andrea Gritti on the occasion of his election. It was frequently reprinted together with his Sofonisba and was often anthologized. All of Trissino's pamphlets printed by Arrighi are VERY SCARCE, with none appearing of this title in American Book Prices Current in at least the last fifty years. Gamba 1708.