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Title: 1554 DE LE LETTERE di M. CLAUDIO TOLOMEI ILLUSTRATED w/ MAP antique 16th CENTURY

Description: DE LE LETTERE di M. CLAUDIO TOLOMEI
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Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1554.
Rare Renaissance edition of the famous collection of letters by the Italian humanist Claudio Tolomei (1492–1556), printed in Venice in 1554 by the important printer and publisher Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari.
The style is humanistic, thetorical, and linguistically reflective - the letters are important source for the development of the Italian Languageand for the scholarly culture of the 16th century.
Illustrated with woodcut engraved map of Monte Argentario
The title page bears Giolito’s well-known phoenix printer’s device with the motto “Morte eterna vita”, one of the most recognizable marks of Venetian Renaissance printing.
The work contains seven books of literary letters addressed to scholars and prominent figures of the Italian Renaissance and represents an important document of the intellectual and literary culture of the 16th century.
Collation:
frontispiece (verso blank), one blank leaf, pp. 2–272, followed by 24 manuscript pages inserted in an early hand, then pp. 281–296, followed by four pages “Tavola”, and one final manuscript page.
Several missing leaves of the final section with early replaced manuscript, most likely from the 17th or early 18th century, restoring the continuity of the text.
These manuscript insertions represent an interesting witness of the historical use and transmission of the volume.
Bound in an old full leather binding with raised bands on the spine.
The binding shows age-related wear but remains solid.
Overall condition good considering the age of the book (mid-16th century).
Binding worn.
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Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari was one of the most important printers of the Italian Renaissance and published numerous works of leading humanist authors. His printer's mark with "phoenix" (MORTE ETERNA VITA) is on the title page.
His editions are today sought after by collectors of early printed books.
size 4 by 6"
Text in Italian
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Angelo Claudio Tolomei (1492–1556) was an Italian philologist. His name in Italian is identical to that of Claudius Ptolemaeus, the 2nd-century Greek astronomer.
He belonged to the prominent Tolomei family of Siena, and became a bishop attached to the court of Pope Paul III.
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1554 DE LE LETTERE di M. CLAUDIO TOLOMEI ILLUSTRATED w/ MAP antique 16th CENTURY

Name: 1554 DE LE LETTERE di M. CLAUDIO TOLOMEI ILLUSTRATED w/ MAP antique 16th CENTURY
SKU: 236865385
Price: 220 USD
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