Military Architecture. CORNAZZANO. De re mili... Lot n° 20

CORNAZZANO, Antonio. De re militari nuovamente con somma diligentia impresso.Florence, Eredi di Filippo Giunta, 1520 8vo small; 90x148 mm.; 18th-century binding in full stiff vellum, leather gusset with gold title to spine; blue boards; cc. 183, including Frontispiece, [1]. Frontispiece with title within xyl. architectural frame, Joints' letterpress mark on verso of last paper, Italic typeface. Very small tear to upper margin of first paper. Fine copy. Rare and important Giuntina first edition. The Poem, written in tercets and divided into nine books, was in this edition completely revised and corrected by Bernardo Giunti, who recomposed it in Tuscan, for the reasons and with the criteria the printer himself explains in the preface that follows the title. DBI: "L'Arte militare, among all the works composed by Cornazzano in Ferrara, was certainly the most fortunate; originally written in prose, it was offered to Ercole d'Este in a codex that is preserved in the Biblioteca Estense... To the prose edition, the C. followed up with one in tercets dedicated to Federico da Nontefeltro, and in this guise the treatise was printed for the first time in 1494; but a wide circulation was ensured especially by the revision to which Bernardo di Filippo Giunti subjected it, who, publishing it in 1520, provided it with a Tuscan guise. "Cornazzano, born in Piacenza around 1430 and died in Ferrara in 1483 or 1484, a celebrated man of letters and poet in Latin and the vernacular, lived in Siena, at the Sforza court, that of Ferrara and Venice. The frontispiece is in an elegant xylographic architectural frame. Adams C-2646; Sander 2174. Small 8vo; 90x148 mm.; 18th century binding in full stiff vellum, leather label with gilt title on the spine; blue edges; leaves 183, including title page, [1]. Title page within an architectural frame, Giunti device on the verso of the last leaf, italic type. Very small tear at the top of the first leaf. Good specimen. Rare and important first Giuntina edition. The Poem, written in triplets and divided into nine books, was in this edition completely revised and corrected by Bernardo Giunti who recomposed it in Tuscan, for the reasons and with the criteria that the printer himself explains in the preface that follows the title. DBI: "Military art, among all the works composed by Cornazzano in Ferrara, was certainly the most fortunate, originally written in prose, it was offered to Ercole d'Este in a codex that is preserved in the Estense Library ... To the editorial staff in prose, C. followed it up with a triplet dedicated to Federico da Nontefeltro and in this capacity the treatise was printed for the first time in 1494; but a wide circulation was ensured above all by the revision to which Bernardo di Filippo Giunti submitted it, who, publishing it in 1520, gave it a Tuscan look "Cornazzano, born in Piacenza around 1430 and died in Ferrara in 1483 or 1484, a famous writer and poet in Latin and vernacular, lived in Siena, at the Sforza court, that of Ferrara and Venice. The Frontispiece is in an elegant woodcut architectural frame.