Petrarca, F.
Il Petrarcha.
Con l'espositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo (...).
Venice, G.G. de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1553
3 parts in 1 volume with continuous pagination
(26),16 lvs.,17-667,(1)p.,
woodcut title, full-page woodcut map, printer's mark and numerous vignettes and initials, vellum binding with morocco letterpiece,
Size 6 1/2 by 9 1/4"
Title-page partially backed to old paper.
With old owner's entry (dated 1690);
blank margin wormholed at the end (after page 585 to the end)
Text in Italian

Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.
In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.
Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.
Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages," which most modern scholars now find misleading and inaccurate.

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