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4to (204x150 mm). 100, [4] pp. The last leaf is a blank. Collation: A-N4. Title-page within an elaborate woodcut border with at the center Rouillé's device. 18th-century vellum over boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. Slightly browned throughout. A good copy.
RARE FIRST EDITION (it was reprinted in 1558 and in 1560). The publisher Guillaume Rouillé (1518?-1588), who, starting with an Italian translation of De viris illustribus urbis Romae, published at the Sign of Venice in Lyons during his life over seventy book in Italian. These were addressed not only to the Italians residing in France, but also to the many Frenchmen, who had learned Italian in the course of war, study, or business. Rouillé had apprehended the book business in Venice with Giovanni and Gabriello Giolito and established himself at Lyons in 1543. His book production exceeded that of Robert Estienne, Gryphius and de Tournes, and his learning at least equalled theirs. His firm gained European reputation and his books… Read More

4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Later cardboards, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for… Read More

4to (214x152 mm). [8], 135, [1] leaves. Collation: *4 †4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties (new endpapers, small stains). On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced, small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text, small ink stain on the upper blank margin at the end of the volume, otherwise a very good genuine copy.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. First published in Bologna in 1546, containing only seventy-two chapters, the Ricordi appeared in an enlarged edition in 1549 (124 chapters) also in Bologna. The present, definitive, edition containing 133 'ricordi' was edited by Zaccaria Bellenghi, Fra Sabba's chaplain in Faenza, shortly after the latter's death. The work became very popular and between 1546 and 1613 twenty-five editions were published.
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8vo (141x95 mm); later stiff vellum, ink title on spine; (47), (1 blank) ll. Italic type. Ownership's entries on the title-page: "di Paolo franceschi" and "di giannantonio Bartholi. Ede sua amicj". A very good copy.
RARE SECOND EDITION, edited by Filippo Pirogallo and by him dedicated to Alessandro Vercelli.
The edition contains the same poems as the first 1538 Parma edition (overall 145 poems including 9 by other authors), with the addition of the stanze Quando miro la terra ornata e bella by Veronica Gambara, here called Stanze aggionte and wrongly attributed to Vittoria Colonna (cf. V. Colonna, Rime, A. Bullock, ed., Bari, 1982, p. 259).
In 1539 Colonna's rhymes were also printed in Florence by Zoppino and twice in Venice (by Salvioni and allegedly by Zoppino or Troiano). These editions are easily distinguishable from the present because they bear either a trefoil or a woodcut border on the title-page. According to Bullock (op. cit.), they are slightly later since they all amend in the dedication… Read More