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MARCOLINI DA FORLI, Francesco (c.1500-1559). Le Sorti intitolate giardino di pensieri. Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1540.
2° (316 x 214mm). Large woodcut on title depicting a group of men and women in the ‘Garden of Thoughts’ by Giuseppe Porta after Salviati, portrait of Marcolini on title verso within architectural border, 100 woodcuts comprising 50 representing abstract qualities, virtues and vices, 50 of philosophers, and numerous smaller woodcuts of playing cards. (Occasional light soiling.) Contemporary calf, covers with wide border composed of gilt and blind fillets enclosing decorative corner pieces and side panels infilled with various gilt foliate, star and dotted tools, enclosing central scalloped panel with trefoils and very small fleur de lis decorations, surrounding a central device of intertwined strap work, edges gilt, gauffered and decorated, modern box (rebacked preserving old spine).
FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED BOOK OF GAMES OF FORTUNE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The source for the title scene, in which the figures in the foreground have a pack of cards and a copy of Marcolini's book, has been found in a design by Francesco Salviati engraved by Marco Dente. Giuseppe Porta was a pupil of Salviati's and took his professional name from his master. Servolini suggests that the portrait of Marcolini is by Titian, noting the resemblance between it and the Titian portrait of Ariosto copied in Lena (Venice: Francesco Bindoni and Maffeo Pasini, 1535). The answers of the philosphers in the second part were put into terzine by Lodovico Dolce. Brunet III, 1407-1408; Casali Annals 54; Mortimer Italian 279; Sander II, 4321.
2° (316 x 214mm). Large woodcut on title depicting a group of men and women in the ‘Garden of Thoughts’ by Giuseppe Porta after Salviati, portrait of Marcolini on title verso within architectural border, 100 woodcuts comprising 50 representing abstract qualities, virtues and vices, 50 of philosophers, and numerous smaller woodcuts of playing cards. (Occasional light soiling.) Contemporary calf, covers with wide border composed of gilt and blind fillets enclosing decorative corner pieces and side panels infilled with various gilt foliate, star and dotted tools, enclosing central scalloped panel with trefoils and very small fleur de lis decorations, surrounding a central device of intertwined strap work, edges gilt, gauffered and decorated, modern box (rebacked preserving old spine).
FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED BOOK OF GAMES OF FORTUNE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The source for the title scene, in which the figures in the foreground have a pack of cards and a copy of Marcolini's book, has been found in a design by Francesco Salviati engraved by Marco Dente. Giuseppe Porta was a pupil of Salviati's and took his professional name from his master. Servolini suggests that the portrait of Marcolini is by Titian, noting the resemblance between it and the Titian portrait of Ariosto copied in Lena (Venice: Francesco Bindoni and Maffeo Pasini, 1535). The answers of the philosphers in the second part were put into terzine by Lodovico Dolce. Brunet III, 1407-1408; Casali Annals 54; Mortimer Italian 279; Sander II, 4321.
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