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CAVALCANTI, Guido (1255-1300). L'espositione...Sopra la canzone d'amore di Guido Caualcanti...Insieme con una sua succinta descrittion della vita, e con le rime di esso. Siena: Marchetti, 1602.
Copy of this scarce edition of Guido Cavalcanti's works owned by the Nobel laureate Giosuè Carducci and his friend, the famous bibliographer Bacchi della Lega. The edition, with only a passage at auction in 1947 (RBH), includes the opinion of the contemporary Egidio Romano (1247-1316) and the commentary and revision of the philologist Celso Cittadini (1553-1627), one of the first authoritative scholars of the Florentine vernacular.
8vo, (140 x 110mm). Printer's device to title page and colophon (some foxing). 18th century vellum binding, blue edges, handwritten title to spine. Provenance: 'Joseph de Burghesis' contemporary ownership inscription to title page; ' Dono di Teod. Landoni Sept. 23, 1880' Handwritten note attributed to Carducci; Teodorico Landoni (1819-1886) was a bibliophile and Dante scholar; ''E' carattere di G. Carducci Alb. Bacchi della Lega'' handwritten note to endpapers by Alberto Bacchi della Lega (1848-1924). (1)
8vo, (140 x 110mm). Printer's device to title page and colophon (some foxing). 18th century vellum binding, blue edges, handwritten title to spine. Provenance: 'Joseph de Burghesis' contemporary ownership inscription to title page; ' Dono di Teod. Landoni Sept. 23, 1880' Handwritten note attributed to Carducci; Teodorico Landoni (1819-1886) was a bibliophile and Dante scholar; ''E' carattere di G. Carducci Alb. Bacchi della Lega'' handwritten note to endpapers by Alberto Bacchi della Lega (1848-1924). (1)
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
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[BINDING] CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC). Epistolarum familiarium. Lyon: Gryphius, 1551.
[BINDING] CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC). Epistolarum familiarium. Lyon: Gryphius, 1551.
ESTIMATE € 600 - 1,000
