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RINGHIERI, Innocenzio (16th-century). Cento giochi liberali, e d'ingegno, novellamente ritrovati, e in dieci libri descritti. Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1551. 4° (220 x 164mm). Large woodcut device on title, smaller one at end. (Small hole on title affecting a letter, tiny marginal wormhole on first 5 leaves and final blank, some occasional marginal staining and light browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped title on spine (tiny wormholes on spine). Provenance: P. Melch (early ownership inscription on title) -- Franz Pollack Parnau (book label).
FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Caterina de' Medici and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto. Adams R-564; Brunet IV, 1268.
FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Caterina de' Medici and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto. Adams R-564; Brunet IV, 1268.