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Interior clean and fresh but for mild soiling and age-toning on title page. Binding shows moderate wear but very sound and tight. Giunti Fiorenza 1546 8vo. 102 ll. Alamanni's poem "Cultivation", influenced by Virgil's "Georgics", printed in Florence by Bernardo di Giunti in the same year as the Paris edition. Dedicated to Francis I of France, who gave the poet sanctuary when he fled Italy and the Medici. Elegant Italic type. Title page and last page have the printer's device, two children with a fleur-de-lis and "Nil Candidus" underneath. In 18th-century calf with raised bands and gilt decorated spine. Marbled endpapers.

Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. [1, blank], 102, [1] leaves. Woodcut device on title and verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. [1, blank], 102, [1] leaves. Woodcut device on title and verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Adams A-410; Renouard p. lv, no. 38; Gamba 17n; Brunet I 125-126

Paris, Ruberto Stephano Regio Stampatore (Robert Estienne), 1546. With engr. printers' device on title. Printed in Italics. 154 leaves (errata on last leaf verso), 2 unn. leaves (privilege in French, slightly shorter), 2 unn. leaves "Alla serenissima Madama la Dalphina". 8vo. 19th-century brown morocco with large blind-stamped centre medallion, 4 corner pieces and 4 smaller stamps, double gilt fillet around sides, flat spine with gilt lettering and fillets (corners slightly bumped). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Paris, Ruberto Stephano Regio Stampatore (Robert Estienne), 1546. First edition, first issue of Alamanni's (1495-1556) didactic poem on husbandry in the tradition of Vergil's Georgica. Alamanni, considered one of the major Italian poets, had to flee to France and became a protégé of King François I. Most of his works were written there, the "Coltivatione" being his best known and most important poem which started a revival… Read More