BEMBO. Gli Asolani. Lot n° 37

BEMBO, Peter. Gli Asolani. Venice, Scotto, 1553. 8vo; 156x100 mm; Binding in half leather and hardback with title on spine; cc. [8], 115. Last blank paper missing. Engraving on title page, ornate capilettera. Handwritten note by Razzolini to the guard sheet and Ex-Libris to the counterplate. Fine copy. Rare and valuable edition, language text. Important treatise on the poetics of love, in dialogue form and divided into three books, written between the end of the 15th century and 1504. Work used to compile the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. Gamba: "Bavetti believes that the Vocabolaristi have also used this edition, it too having been revised by the Author, and held to be the best since that of 1530. It encloses in fact observable mutations ..." Set in Asolo, at the court of Caterina Cornaro queen of Cyprus, while celebrating the marriage of a lady: in three days a number of Venetian gentlemen talk delicately and vividly of love with as many gentlewomen. Bembo resumed the composition of the Asolani in 1500, influenced by the events of an unhappy love affair with Maria Savorgnan, and finished them in 1504. Adams, B, 58; Brunet, I, 766; Gamba, 133; STC, 80. 8vo; 156x100 mm; Quarter leather and cardboard binding with title on the spine; Leaves [8], 115, without last blank leaf. Engraving on the title page, adorned initial letters. Razzolini's handwritten note on the end-papers and Ex-Libris glued on insidecover. Good specimen. Rare and valuable edition, language text. Important treatise on the poetics of love, in the form of a dialogue and divided into three books, written between the end of the 15th century and 1504. Work used to compile the Vocabulary of the Accademici della Crusca. Gamba: "Bavetti believes that the Vocabularists have also used this edition, it too having been revised by the Author, and held to be the best since that of 1530. It encloses in fact observable mutations ..." Set in Asolo, at the court of Caterina Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, while the wedding of a lady is being celebrated: in three days some Venetian gentlemen speak delicately and vivacity of love with as many gentlewomen. Bembo resumed the composition of the Asolani in 1500, influenced by the events of an unhappy love for Maria Savorgnan, and concluded them in 1504. Adams, B, 58; Brunet, I, 766; Gamba, 133; STC, 80.